Add support for Microsoft Build Tools 2015 in default generator selection
See thread with the same name on the user mailing list.
I’ve installed build tools from here: http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools. But CMake will automatically detect (and choose) Visual Studio 8 (installed here as well) instead.
Looking into the source:
const std::string vsregBase =
"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\";
std::vector<std::string> vsVerions;
vsVerions.push_back("VisualStudio\\");
vsVerions.push_back("VCExpress\\");
vsVerions.push_back("WDExpress\\");
struct VSRegistryEntryName
{
const char* MSVersion;
const char* GeneratorName;
};
VSRegistryEntryName version[] = {
/* clang-format needs this comment to break after the opening brace */
{ "7.1", "Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003" },
{ "8.0", "Visual Studio 8 2005" },
{ "9.0", "Visual Studio 9 2008" },
{ "10.0", "Visual Studio 10 2010" },
{ "11.0", "Visual Studio 11 2012" },
{ "12.0", "Visual Studio 12 2013" },
{ "14.0", "Visual Studio 14 2015" },
{ "15.0", "Visual Studio 15" },
{ 0, 0 }
};
for (int i = 0; version[i].MSVersion != 0; i++) {
for (size_t b = 0; b < vsVerions.size(); b++) {
std::string reg = vsregBase + vsVerions[b] + version[i].MSVersion;
reg += ";InstallDir]";
cmSystemTools::ExpandRegistryValues(reg, cmSystemTools::KeyWOW64_32);
if (!(reg == "/registry")) {
installedCompiler = version[i].GeneratorName;
break;
}
}
}
CMake will look for HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\InstallDir
. This key is not present indeed. When specified explicitly:
cmake . -G "Visual Studio 14 2015"
CMake will correctly detect the compiler and build without problems.
These keys might be helpful when looking for Build Tools:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Setup\VC]
"ProductDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Setup\SSDT]
"InstallDir"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\"
"VersionNumber"="14.0.50616.0"