cannot find valid Visual Code Studio install

[Erik Joelsson]

Could you post the full configure command and log please. This sounds 
weird. You should not be needing clang on Windows.

Also, what source did you clone?

/Erik

On 2020-07-09 07:04, Ty Young wrote:
>
> On 7/9/20 7:37 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Hello Ty,
>>
>> Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or 2017, any edition, should work. My 
>> best guess is that you skipped installing the necessary parts of it. 
>> Run the installer again, click "Modify" and make sure you have 
>> "Desktop development with C++" ticked in.
>
>
> That worked, thanks!
>
>
> It still didn't configure though. Now it's complaining about not 
> having clang installed. Once I installed clang and clang-devel, it 
> then complained about not having version 9 installed. The latest 
> version from cygdrive was 8<something>, 9 is not an option. If I try 
> to trick it by copying and renaming the older 8<something> version, it 
> then complains about Index.h being found but not being compileable and 
> to report it here.
>
>
> Any advice here? I tried installing more extra stuff from Visual Code 
> Studio to see if it'd help, but it doesn't or I'm not installing the 
> right things.
>
>
>>
>> /ERik
>>
>> On 2020-07-09 01:29, Ty Young wrote:
>>> Hopefully this is the right place. Don't shoot me if it isn't, please.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to build the JDK from Windows 10. I got so far as to 
>>> configure failing on finding what it needs from the Visual Code 
>>> Studio install via command line:
>>>
>>>
>>> configure: Found Visual Studio installation at /cygdrive/c/Program 
>>> Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community using well-known 
>>> name
>>> configure: Warning: None of vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat 
>>> vc/bin/x86_amd64/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars64.bat were found, Visual Studio 
>>> installation not recognized. Ignoring
>>> configure: Found Visual Studio installation at /cygdrive/c/Program 
>>> Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community using well-known 
>>> name
>>> configure: Warning: None of vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat 
>>> vc/bin/x86_amd64/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars64.bat were found, Visual Studio 
>>> installation not recognized. Ignoring
>>> configure: Cannot locate a valid Visual Studio installation, 
>>> checking current environment
>>> checking for Visual Studio variables... not found
>>> configure: Cannot locate a valid Visual Studio or Windows SDK 
>>> installation on disk,
>>> configure: nor is this script run from a Visual Studio command prompt.
>>> configure: Try setting --with-tools-dir to the VC/bin directory 
>>> within the VS installation
>>>
>>>
>>> However there is no "bin" directory in this installation, at least 
>>> not one that contains any of the specified files. This is Visual 
>>> Code 2019 Community, but I've tried the Professional version too. 
>>> The building document doesn't specify which version, nor does it 
>>> tell me how to fix this.
>>>
>>>
>>> How do I get this to work via command line?
>>>