vswhere VS builder

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vswhere

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations (by microsoft)
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Simple build system for Visual C++ (by janivanecky)
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5 1
899 0
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4.5 10.0
6 days ago over 3 years ago
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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

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

graphics_wgpu

pygfx - A python render engine running on 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 🎢

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