VS install found through --with-tools-dir value is discarded
Jorn Vernee
jorn.vernee at oracle.com
Wed Oct 9 14:00:15 UTC 2019
Hi,
I was testing with different versions of Visual Studio to try and nail
down the source of a deprecation warning. I was using the
--with-tools-dir config option to quickly switch between installations
but noticed the VS install that was being found through that method was
being discarded, leading to a failed configuration.
The fix is pretty simple:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jvernee/vs_tools_dir/webrev.00/
The TOOLCHAIN_CHECK_POSSIBLE_VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT macro sets the
VS_ENV_CMD var, and skips doing anything when it is already set. So,
previously, by setting it to an empty string _after_ the check for
--with-tools-dir any VS install that's found with that method is always
discarded, or otherwise overwritten when another method for finding a VS
installation also works.
With that fix selecting the VS installation works as expected.
On a side note; I noticed that the hostx86 toolchain is preferred over
the hostx64 version in VS 2017+, due to the order of values in
VCVARSFILES in TOOLCHAIN_CHECK_POSSIBLE_VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT. Is there any
particular reason for this? I'd expect the x64 toolchain would be
preferred on x64 platforms.
Jorn
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