[Scons-dev] Visual Studio without C++ compiler installed

[Bill Deegan]

I think the msvc tool should discard versions where there is no cl tool
since msvc (should) = Microsoft Visual C

Any idea how to update the appveyor config file to have it install cl ?

-Bill

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Daniel Moody <dmoody256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking at one of our test in the appveyor CI and I noticed it was
> failing due to the 'cl' executable not being found:
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/SCons/scons/build/3.0.
> 1.205/job/yp0pg368ga5i033b#L141
>
> This is a case where Visual Studio has been installed, but the C++ build
> tools have not. SCons detects the Visual Studio installation and assumes
> the C++ build tools will be there.
>
> Usually Visual Studio installs the c++ compiler by default so this is
> generally not an issue, however for Visual Studio 2015, the c++ compiler
> was not installed by default and when developing on systems where I was
> using Visual Studio 2015 install, I ran into this issue myself a few times.
> I would then need to go install the C++ compiler for that version to fix it.
>
> Is this a bug? Should SCons detect if the C++ compiler is installed along
> with a Visual Studio version, and if the C++ compiler is not there, discard
> that version from the list of available MSVS versions to use?
>
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