builder VS vswhere

Compare builder vs vswhere and see what are their differences.

builder

Simple build system for Visual C++ (by janivanecky)
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Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations (by microsoft)
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10.0 5.1
over 3 years ago about 2 months ago
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- MIT License
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builder

Posts with mentions or reviews of builder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

vswhere

Posts with mentions or reviews of vswhere. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-27.
  • how does this work?
    1 project | /r/github | 24 Jul 2023
    But often maintainers also upload Releases with builds of their software, e.g. like here: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases
  • Extending Python with Rust
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2022
    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
  • microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
    4 projects | /r/programming | 25 Nov 2021
    / // 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
  • Microsoft_craziness.h
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing builder and vswhere you can also consider the following projects:

win32metadata - Tooling to generate metadata for Win32 APIs in the Windows SDK.

fastplotlib - Next-gen fast plotting library running on WGPU using the pygfx rendering engine

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

pygfx - A python render engine running on wgpu.

graphics_wgpu

tundra - Tundra is a code build system that tries to be accurate and fast for incremental builds

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

numexpr - Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas, PyTables and more

Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM

python-qubit-setup - All scripts for controlling the instruments and acquiring data in our qubit setup.

OpenRCT2 - An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

builder vs win32metadata vswhere vs fastplotlib builder vs zig vswhere vs zig vswhere vs pygfx vswhere vs graphics_wgpu vswhere vs tundra vswhere vs sol2 vswhere vs numexpr vswhere vs Numba vswhere vs python-qubit-setup vswhere vs OpenRCT2