[wix-users] Accessing VS command prompt only variable

[Slide]

You could use vswhere. It is always installed at the same location as of VS
15.2: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe"


It allows you to interogate where components are located. You can look at
the component list here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-component-id-vs-build-tools

I use it to build IronPython by doing something like this to get the path
to msbuild:

vswhere -latest -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -property
installationPath

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 07:34 Edwin Castro via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Ensure the VS command prompt bat script is run before you run your build?
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 03:44 Ken Wood via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can access the normal environment variables within wix but the Visual
> > studio command prompt only variables don't seem available. In
> particular, I
> > want to use VCToolsRedistDir as we have many versions of VS2017 installed
> > on developers/build machines with different update versions and I don't
> > want to hard code the update version number or the install type (some are
> > professional and some enterprise).
> >
> > Any help will be very helpful
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >
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