unable to link: no vcvars

[shawnye]

I have vs2010 express installed and cl is OK

Then I'm starting my first pony program from tutorial, compile ok but link failed:

g:\dev\pony\test>ponyc
Building builtin -> e:\yexy6\ponyc\ponyc-master-0.2.1-1328.d6f759a-win64\packages\builtin
Building . -> g:\dev\pony\test
Generating
 Reachability
 Selector painting
 Data prototypes
 Data types
 Function prototypes
 Functions
 Descriptors
Optimising
Writing .\test.obj
Error:
unable to link: no vcvars

[SeanTAllen]

@kulibali any ideas?

[chalcolith]

The compiler only knows about VS2013 and higher. Do we need to support older versions?

[SeanTAllen]

@shawnye you need to use VS2015 per the README. VS2013 might work but it isnt supported.

[shawnye]

I've installed Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools, and use ponyc-0.12.2-win64, the error still occurred,

I found vsvars32.bat in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools\ , no vsvars.bat file , maybe this is the reason ?

[SeanTAllen]

@kulibali any thoughts? I'm always in the dark on "almost all things windows".

[chalcolith]

I'll take a look. I may have broken this with my recent VS2017 change.

[chalcolith]

Ok, #1794 fixes the broken Build Tools support and cleans up the Visual Studio detection in general.