Jan Piotrowski (Sujan) created CB-13878:
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Summary: Enforce usage of specific version of MSBuildTools
Key: CB-13878
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13878
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Bug
Components: cordova-windows
Reporter: Jan Piotrowski (Sujan)
Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
With Visual Studio 2017 (15.5) you can't build Win8.1 projects any more, see
CB-13874.
There are also problems with standalone MSBuild versions you can install.
The MSBuildTools selection mechanism that is currently used is not prepared to
handle that in any way - it chooses one MSBuildTool version, then checks if it
can build the projects and proceeds or fails.
There is the workaround that VSINSTALLDIR can be used to force a specific VS
2017+ installation where it then tries to find a MSBuildTool installation in a
specific folder, but this is also very unreliable.
This issue proposes a new ENV var that can be used to point to the exact
MSBuildTool instance that should be used. This way it will be possible to use
the VS2015 build tools while VS2017 is installed etc.
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