[issue30389] distutils._msvccompiler cannot find VS 2017

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower:

Visual Studio 2017 (including VC 14.1) cannot be discovered by the old registry key method. There is a new method that requires instantiating a COM class and querying for all installs, then selecting one.

My pyfindvs library (https://github.com/zooba/pyfindvs) can find a VS 2017 installation, and I propose porting the core C function into Python so that distutils._msvccompiler can use it.

This would be internal and not for public use (except via the normal build_ext API).

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assignee: steve.dower
components: Distutils, Windows
messages: 293862
nosy: dstufft, merwok, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: distutils._msvccompiler cannot find VS 2017
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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