New submission from Steve Dower: Visual Studio 2017 (including VC 14.1) cannot be discovered by the old registry key method. There is a new method that requires instantiating a COM class and querying for all installs, then selecting one.
My pyfindvs library (https://github.com/zooba/pyfindvs) can find a VS 2017 installation, and I propose porting the core C function into Python so that distutils._msvccompiler can use it. This would be internal and not for public use (except via the normal build_ext API). ---------- assignee: steve.dower components: Distutils, Windows messages: 293862 nosy: dstufft, merwok, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: distutils._msvccompiler cannot find VS 2017 type: behavior versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30389> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
