VCVARSALL.BAT for Visual studio 2017

Question

What is the location of file:

VCVARSALL.BAT

for Visual studio 2017?

Answer 1

VS2017 has reworked its directory structure and filenames. You should look for the file 'vcvars.bat', which can be located in "..\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\EDITION\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\vcvars.bat" (replace EDITION with the version of Visual Studio you use).

For simplicity, you can use "%VSAPPIDDIR%" in your call to point to the IDE folder where devenv.exe is located, and go back one folder to define your path to the batch file. For example:

call "%VSAPPIDDIR%..\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\vcvars.bat"

Answer 2

The VC folder is within the Desktop development with C++ workload. Go to your add or remove programs and modify your Visual Studio 2017, and choose it as shown below:

click on Modify (or Install/Setup in other devices). Go check your folder *\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build* and you'll see the the vcvars64.bat.

Answer 3

To summarize, sth along the lines of

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64

or

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd" -arch=x64

(try running it with -help)

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My environment:

** Visual Studio 2017 Developer Command Prompt v15.0.26403.7

on Win10 x64

Answer 4

Hans Passant is right.
I had the same problem: no VCVARSALL.BAT for my VS2017 and no Build folder in Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary. I have Visual Studio Community 2015 and 2017 installed on the same machine.
I didn't have Desktop development with C++ check in my installation. I installed it and the Build folder was created! Now everything work great.

Answer 5

I had the same problem - was fixed by removing and reinstalling latest version of microsoft office (2017-2019) resolved the issue. The folder should exist in your MS path automatically, if its not there, uninstall and redownload and install - on my system takes around 3 hours.