[opensource-dev] devenv.com (was Re: Using 'autobuild' to build the viewer)

[Brad Kittenbrink (Brad Linden)]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Welch <jhwelch at gmail.com> wrote:

> In autobuild\autobuild_tool_source_environment.py there is one
> reference to "devenv" and two references to "devenv.com".
>
> This should be
> 1) Made consistent
> 2) Make sure there is not a devenv.exe -- just what is supposed to be
> run?  I cannot check for myself, but one person told me there were
> both .exe and .com present.
>
>
Both devenv.exe and devenv.com are supposed to be present in a standard
visual studio installation.  As I understand things, devenv.com is intended
to be the command line wrapper for devenv.exe.  On some systems, devenv.exe
behaves poorly if run directly from the command line (I've never repro'd
these problems myself, so unfortunately I don't have further details).
Originally we just used devenv by itself, but there were problems, and we
fixed the bug by switching to use devenv.com explicitly.  We seem to have
not caught all the occurrences however.

Anyways, that's the logic behind why things are the way they are.

We'll probably also need to add cases to handle whatever naming conventions
VCExpress has as well (if they're different).

-Brad
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