BatchUTILS

[rgleason]

Dan,
I see you just added a batch file to build release with debug info.
I happen to be trying to finally get set up with this new version so that I can test and debug Polar_pi.


My installation is a little different than your's for some reason. I find in System > Environment Variables > Under "System Variables" that

%VCINSTALLDIR% =C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC

%VS141COMNTOOLS% =%C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools

I tried %vcinstalldir% and it went here
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC
where there are 3 directories Auxiliary, Redist & Tools which has me lost.

I tried %vs141comntools% which goes here

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools

Now I notice that the Visual Studio Shortcut goes to

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio 2017

and that Shortcut has this path in properties

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"

which starts Visual Studio up.


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In the batchUTILs Osetup.bat you make the following suggestions:


Osetup.bat

rem Create symbolic link to this file in folder "%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext".
rem Be sure to use the complete path to this file as in the example below:
rem mklink "%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\Osetup. bat" e:\storage\transmitterdan\BatchUtils\Osetup.bat
rem Note you may have to open CMD prompt as administrator to create the link.

What changes should I make?

[rgleason]

Now I find this path on my computer which is similar but different:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext

similar to Osetup.bat

rem Create symbolic link to this file in folder "%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext".

Is this where I should put the symbolic link? and should I change any of the variables?
Like change %VCINSTALLDIR% to %VSINSTALLDIR% and change the path accordingly?
or simply make a new VSINSTALLDIR and point it appropriately?

or I could just use the other variable

%VS141COMNTOOLS%\vsdevcmd\ext

to create symbolic link to Osetup.bat.


So from the command prompt, when in directory

%VS141COMNTOOLS%\vsdevcmd\ext

So the to create the link, I will have to execute

mklink %VS141COMNTOOLS%\vsdevcmd\ext\Osetup.bat C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\BatchUTILS\Osetup.b at

[rgleason]

I tried this and the syntax is incorrect. Perhaps this will work

mklink C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\Osetup.bat C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\BatchUTILS\Osetup.b at

That syntax is wrong too. Then tried it running as admin and that syntax is wrong too.

[rgleason]

I need to use quotes here because of spaces.

mklink "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\Osetup.bat" "C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\BatchUTILS\Osetup. bat"

[rgleason]

Using command prompt as admin,

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext"

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext>m klink "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\O setup.bat" "C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\BatchUTILS\Ose tup. bat"
symbolic link created for C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\O setup.bat <<===>> C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\BatchUTILS\Osetup. bat

it worked but I notice wayward spaces......

[rgleason]

Then I tried findvc.bat again

C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\BatchUTILS>findvc
Trying to find Visual Studio version
""
"__get__ = "
Error: No compatible Visual Studio installed.
VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC
"vcgen="
"vcts="

That's not working either and I do have it installed.
I've also added the path to batchUTILS to my environment.

[rgleason]

From the command prompt:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community>osetup
"*******************************"
"* Entering Osetup.bat...V1 *"
"*******************************"
Found OpenCPN development folder at C:\Users\Rick\Documents\GitHub\OpenCPN
Trying to find Visual Studio version
""
"__get__ = "
Error: No compatible Visual Studio installed.
VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC
"vcgen="
"vcts="
"vcgen="
"vcts="
Found most recent version of wxWidgets at C:\wxWidgets-3.1.2
\Windows was unexpected at this time.

It looks like I should modify the variable VCINSTALLDIR 's path, but to what?


I could modify it to

'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
which I know starts Visual studio up.

[rgleason]

I added to findvc.bat

if /I "%VSINSTALLDIR%" == "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC" call :VS2017

and still get no compatible Visual Studio Installed.

[rgleason]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\


has batch files
VsMSBuildCmd.bat
VsDevCmd.bat
vcruntime140.dll


and directory
vsdevcmd
-core
-ext
--osetup.bat link
--cmake.bat
--vcvars.bat
---vcvars folder
---vcvars140.bat