How to specify exact version number rather than latest

[ssoelvsten]

I am on thomasmoelhave/tpie#257 , adding CI for all major platforms for the TPIE library which my research project is heavily dependent upon. Yet, due to a very weird error (thomasmoelhave/tpie#269), the library cannot compile with the latest 2019 MSC compiler, but only up to 19.27.

Specifically, as far as I can tell, the TPIE compatibility with MSC breaks between these two version numbers

	Working	Failing
Product Version	16.7	16.8.1
Runtime Library	14.27	14.28
MSC version	19.27.29112	19.28.29333

Based on the README, I am unable to figure out what value to parse to this GitHub Action? There is a toolset argument but I seem to get an error regardless of whether I set it to 16.7, 14.27 or 19.27 (or maybe I missed a specific value when trying it out?).

For example when using v1.12.1 and toolset to the product version, I get the error messages

Found with vswhere: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat
Error: Could not setup Developer Command Prompt: invalid parameters
[ERROR:vcvars.bat] Toolset directory for version '16.7' was not found.

Based on the Wikipedia article, I should provide a truncated runtime library instead, but neither 14.27 nor 141 seem to work.

[ssoelvsten]

Maybe all this boils down to "How do I derive the toolset number?" which in itself might be worth adding to the README.

[pzhlkj6612]

Hi! I've not dug into the issues you link but still want to share something with you.

I've tested GitHub Actions with the following workflow file:

name: CI
on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        os: [windows-2019, windows-2022]
        toolset_ver:
          - "v140"
          - "v141"
          - 140
          - 141
          - 14
          - "14.0"
          - 14.1
          - 14.2
          - 14.21
          - 14.22
          - 14.23
          - 14.24
          - 14.25
          - 14.26
          - 14.27
          - 14.28
          - 14.29
          - "14.30"
          - 14.3
          - 14.31
          - 14.32
          - 14.33
          - 14.34
          - 14.35
          - 14.36
          - 14.37
          - 14.38
    steps:
      - uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
        with:
          arch: x64
          toolset: ${{ matrix.toolset_ver }}
      # https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/build/reference/help-compiler-command-line-help
      - run: |
          "CL_VERSION=$(cl /? 2>&1 | Select-String -Pattern 'Compiler Version' -CaseSensitive -SimpleMatch)" | Out-File -Append -FilePath ${env:\GITHUB_OUTPUT}
        shell: pwsh
        id: cl
      - run: echo '::warning ::${{ matrix.os }} + toolset-${{ matrix.toolset_ver }} = ${{ steps.cl.outputs.CL_VERSION }}'

The result is:

toolset	windows-2019	windows-2022	note
14	19.29.30152	19.37.32824
14.0	19.00.24247.2		140
14.1	19.16.27051	19.16.27051	v141
14.2	19.29.30152	19.29.30152
14.25	19.25.28614
14.29	19.29.30152	19.29.30152
14.3		19.37.32824
14.35		19.35.32217.1
14.37		19.37.32824

(The above table is generated by TablesGenerator.com)

The versions of toolset are from the "windowsNNNN-readme.md" files in https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images/win . Please search "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC" in those files.

[ssoelvsten]

That looks like the exact information I needed, thanks! 🙂