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microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
As far as I now, this version is slightly outdated. The latest version that I'm aware of is version 2.
vswhere
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how does this work?
But often maintainers also upload Releases with builds of their software, e.g. like here: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases
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Extending Python with Rust
Finding where & how to use an installed VS instance (or selecting one) in automated tooling is solved by the criminally unknown, MIT licensed, MS supported, redistributable, vswhere tool: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere
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microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
/ // This file was about 400 lines before we started adding these comments. // You might think that's way too much code to do something as simple // as finding a few library and executable paths. I agree. However, // Microsoft's own solution to this problem, called "vswhere", is a // mere EIGHT THOUSAND LINE PROGRAM, spread across 70 files, // that they posted to github unironically. // // I am not making this up: https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
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