vsvars32.bat in Visual Studio 2017

Question

As the Visual Studio installer is new from Visual Studio 2017 version, I cannot located the Visual C++ component, explained here.

How do I proceed to get the vsvars32.bat in VS2017?

Answer 1

VS2017 suffers from very seriously brain-damaged install path location choices. Most damning dumb thing they did is to make the edition name (Professional, Enterprise, probably Community) part of the path. This makes it quite difficult to find tools back reliably from one machine to another.

There is one environment variable that I think can solve the problem, the VSAPPIDDIR variable stores the path to the folder where the IDE is installed (devenv.exe). So if you want to run vcvars32.bat from a build event then you'd use

   call "%vsappiddir%....VCAuxiliaryBuildvcvars32.bat" x86

Note that it is vc, not vs, vsvars32.bat no longer exists. You could possibly favor the "Developer Command Prompt:

   call "%vsappiddir%..oolsvsdevcmd.bat"

But judging from your link, you actually want to run the editbin.exe utility:

   "%vsappiddir%....VCToolsMSVC14.10.25017inHostX86x86editbin.exe" args...

The 14.10.25017 version number is no joy whatsoever either, no real insight in how that is going to change from one update to the next. It probably will.