Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Michael,

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Michal Vala <mvala at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 02/14/2018 12:24 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it
>> possible to choose which Visual Studio installation to use?
>>
>> Note that I start the configure script from within the cygwin shell.
>>
>>
> OpenJDK configure is reading VS environment properties
> VS100COMNTOOLS/VS120COMNTOOLS/VS140COMNTOOLS etc. One option is to set
> just one of them. AFAIK configure takes latest supported VS (2013 for
> ojdk9).
>
> Another option is to use configure parameters, but I don't know how
> exactly use them. Try to look to configure help
>
> $ bash ./configure --help | grep toolchain
>   --with-tools-dir        alias for --with-toolchain-path for backwards
>   --with-toolchain-path   prepend these directories when searching for
>                           toolchain binaries (compilers etc)
>   --with-toolchain-type   the toolchain type (or family) to use, use
> '--help'
>   --with-toolchain-version
>                           the version of the toolchain to look for, use
>   --with-build-devkit     Devkit to use for the build platform toolchain
>                           [toolchain dependent]
> The following toolchains are available as arguments to
> --with-toolchain-type.
>
>
> --
> Michal Vala
> OpenJDK QE
> Red Hat Czech
>

Thank you for your pointers, I'll see how far I get.

..Thomas