On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Andrew Pardoe via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
[Rene Rivera] For example I would consider the state of finding the vs install location to be in the order of "making people dizzy". But that's just my opinion from having to deal with the fallout of making b2 work for it.
If you're having trouble locating the install location, please reach out to me. There's a straightforward way to do it programmatically. More info can be found on this Reddit thread and the blog post referenced: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/5t3881/visual_studio_ 2017_will_be_released_on_march_7/ddmowka/
We're coming out with a VC++ blog post and (I presume) a better code sample soon.
Yes! We need a way to do it without compiling any code. See the discussion in this (nasty) pull request: https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/159 Tom