[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 175275] New: [Win[ Detect Visual Studio 2017 location

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175275

            Bug ID: 175275
           Summary: [Win[ Detect Visual Studio 2017 location
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Tools / Tests
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: don.olmstead at sony.com
                CC: lforschler at apple.com

Currently the build scripts try to find a Visual Studio install through a standard location. With Visual Studio 2017 there is now a way to detect where a VS install is. This is similar in concept to xcode-select.

At present the build scripts look for the standard location of VS Community Edition. There is also a build tools variant that does not install the IDE which is what we're using for our WinCairo buildbot and will not be picked up at that location.

Information on how to find a VS install is documented at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/03/06/finding-the-visual-c-compiler-tools-in-visual-studio-2017/. One option is a redistributable executable vswhere, whose source is MIT licensed and available at https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere. Checking in a built version of this executable is probably the easiest way forward.

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