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authorGravatar Yun Peng <pcloudy@google.com>2016-09-28 14:22:34 +0000
committerGravatar Yun Peng <pcloudy@google.com>2016-09-28 16:06:26 +0000
commiteb87208599cdb9ede31efe793485e9096ab4a773 (patch)
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parent8b88f64e92679543b48770bf530ca724a4d7214d (diff)
Make cc_configure on Windows more robust
1. Throw an error if Bash-on-Windows is found instead of MSYS bash 2. Introduce BAZEL_VS environment variable 3. Output more information Fix https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1847 -- Change-Id: Ic4571c6c792d9b81df4cd800b8f19d121cc44c33 Reviewed-on: https://bazel-review.googlesource.com/#/c/6330 MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=134531295
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@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ To build C++ targets, you will need:
<br/>We are using MSVC as the native C++ toolchain, so please ensure you have Visual
Studio installed with the Visual C++ components
(which is NOT the default installation type of Visual Studio).
+You can set BAZEL\_VS environment variable to tell Bazel
+where Visual Studio is, otherwise Bazel will try to find the latest version installed.
+<br/>For example: `export BAZEL_VS="C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0"`
* [Python 2.7](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
<br/>Currently, we use python wrapper scripts to call the actual MSVC compiler, so