[Scons-dev] MSVC 2017+ Toolset Support

[Mats Wichmann]

On 8/11/20 9:23 AM, Joseph Brill wrote:
> I would like to take an opportunity to document some of the behavior of
> the toolset version and some of the terminology used as a basis for
> further discussion.  Also, I believe that the consistency gap is for a
> narrow subset of the possible extended specifications. 
> 
>  
> 
> Toolset:  14.2[X[.YYYYY]],  14.1[X[.YYYYY]], 14.0
> 
> Product:  14.2 (MSVC 2019),  14.1 (MSVC 2017), 14.0 (MSVC 2015)
> 
> Component:  Enterprise (Ent),  Professional (Pro),  Community (Com),
> BuildTools (BT),  WDExpress (Exp)

To throw another spanner into the works, there are Visual Studio product
codes too, which are 16.X for 2019, 15.x for 2017 and 14.0 for 2015...