Re: Visual Studio 2022

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 18:55, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

> On 1/15/22 4:37 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> > On Jan 15, 2022, at 3:09 AM, Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anders Broman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Yes sounds like a good idea. Have been contemplating testing it too.
> > >
> > > I just installed the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022"
> https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2022
> > "These Build Tools allow you to build Visual Studio projects from a
> command-line interface."
> > Does that mean
> >
> >       this is Visual Studio without the "Visual", i.e. it's all the
> command-line tools, but without the IDE
> > or
> >
> >       if you just install Visual Studio, you don't get the command-line
> tools - you also have to install this?
> > The former sounds like "Command Line Tools for Xcode {version}" on macOS
> or "don't install any IDE" on the free-software UN*Xes (I don't know
> whether Oracle Studio offers that).
> > The latter seems less likely, as I think most IDEs either run the
> compiler/linker/other tools directly or run some builder program (make,
> msbuild, etc.) that runs the compiler/linker/other tools, but I guess if
> the core of the compiler/linker are in libraries that the command-line
> tools link with and that an IDE program could link with as well (say hello,
> LLVM), it would be possible.
>
> The Developer's Guide recommends installing the Native Desktop workload.
> Reading through the list of components at
>
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-component-id-vs-build-tools?view=vs-2022#desktop-development-with-c
>
> it looks like Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreBuildTools
> corresponds to "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022" and
> Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 includes the compiler.
>
>
> I set up my environment by running
>
> ----
> choco install -y visualstudio2022community
> visualstudio2022-workload-nativedesktop
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat
> ----
You can specify the workloads as arguments to the



> The first line of `cl.exe /?` returns
>
> ----
> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.30.30706 for x64
> ----
The MSVC version numbering is somewhat exotic, the table given by Wikipedia
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B#Internal_version_numbering)
seems accurate, the cl.exe version is the initial value under the _MSC_VER
column.


-- 
Graham Bloice

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