Re: Visual Studio 2022

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

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

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choco install -y visualstudio2022community visualstudio2022-workload-nativedesktop
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat
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The first line of `cl.exe /?` returns

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Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.30.30706 for x64
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