Hi Erik, On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello Thomas, > > If you have multiple versions installed, configure will pick the one to > use in order of most supported. To explicitly pick one, you can use > --with-toolchain-version=2010 (or some other number) and configure will > look for that specific version of Visual Studio. Just pointing to an > install dir or bin dir does not work because configure needs to know which > version it is dealing with and we haven't implemented smart enough > discovery logic to automatically figure that out. > > Great, exactly what I was looking for! > Note that I recently added configure support for 2015 and 2017 in JDK 11. > This does NOT mean the product actually builds with those and configure > will print warnings accordingly. We are working on properly supporting > 2017, but it's apparently non trivial. > > Yes, I was playing around with getting VS2017 to build, and wanted to test changes with various VS versions. I see that Lois Foltan is quite active, maybe I just wait till he is done. ..Thomas > /Erik > > > > On 2018-02-14 03:24, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it >> possible to choose which Visual Studio installation to use? >> >> Note that I start the configure script from within the cygwin shell. >> >> Thanks, Thomas >> > >
