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vswhere

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations. More information: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere.
  • Find the path of vcvarsall.bat to set environment variables:
    vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat
  • Find the directory of the x64 MSVC compiler (cl.exe, etc):
    vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\Hostx64\x64\*
  • Find the directory of Clang bundled with Visual Studio bundled (clang-cl, clang-tidy, etc):
    vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\Llvm\bin\*
  • Find the path of MSBuild.exe:
    vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find MSBuild\**\Bin\MSBuild.exe

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