Visual Studio 2017 Support

Issue #15 resolved
Dean Glazeski created an issue

I know this one is a bit on the tricky side, but I know both SCons and parts do not have support for this release of Visual Studio. I did some digging into what is wrong and it turns out the Microsoft dropped registry support in exchange for targeting something called setup package. The reason for this has to do with the potential for more than one installation of VS2017 on a given system. This will probably complicate things going into the future.

Something interesting that I did encounter is that CMake does have some support for VS2017 discovery. You can checkout this file from their source tree that is doing the COM API work to discover VS. I can only assume SCons and parts will need to do something similar.

Comments (5)

  1. Jason Kenny

    So we have some support for vs 2017 thanks to Dean patch. I am going to say this is resolved, and that it can be improved on as we find issues

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