[CMake] looking for Visual Studio installation

[Piotr Dobrogost]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 19.04.09 13:31:22, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:

>> I get it. But wouldn't it be a GOOD THING to incorporate logic of
>> vcvarsall.bat into cmake's module looking for VC?

> That would mean it needs to find that file as first thing, because that
> file actually uses its own absolute path to set the variables properly. And
> at that moment you again have a problem when people have multiple VS
> installations on the same machine.

I guess multiple installations of VS is a very rare case.
Wouldn't reading VS variables in registry help?

Below is an example of how people try to manage this.

Mattias Helsing wrote:

> I have a vague memory of a similar problem. As I remember - I was
> better off using %VS90COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat to source in the build
> environment. Could you try this?


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