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We have a Team City Build Server running and want to compile a Visual C++ project. So far this would be easy, since I've setup our Windows Build Agent with the Windows SDK, but we don't have a solution / project file.

The project files are instead created with CMake. CMake seems to be a little bit dumb (can't generate Solution when Visual Studio is not installed), but with some tricks, I could get it to do it. The solution can then be built with MSBuild.

And here comes the problem. For this to work automatically, I need to call the Windows SDK's SetEnv.cmd. And I can't seem to find it automatically. It's in the bin sub directory of the Windows SDK, but neither bin nor the root are in the path, and the %mssdk% environment variable is set by the SetEnv.cmd and is not available beforehand!

Adding the Windows SDK\bin dir to the PATH leads to SetEnv.cmd no longer working (exits with a message like The x86 compilers are not currently installed and Jump target Set_x86 not found.

The start menu link is calling the SetEnv.cmd with the Windows SDK dir as working directory instead. But if I add the root directory to the PATH, Bin\SetEnv.cmd is not available.

How can I find SetEnv.cmd automatically? Even setting an environment variable to the full path of the setenv.cmd doesn't work, and when I define %mssdk% as the sdk dir, then call %mssdk%\bin\SetEnv doesn't work as well. I also tried to define %mssdk%, then cd %mssdk%, then calling bin\SetEnv. Also compilers not found in all these cases. It also doesn't work if I manually cd to the root or bin dir on a command line and then call SetEnv.cmd...

The start menu link works fine though.

For the record, my solution for now, as strange as this is, is the following:

I created a MSBuild file that creates the solution file with CMake on the command line, then invokes the created solution with a MSBuild task. The MSBuild file can be easily built from TeamCity, though I needed some additional tricks to satisfy CMake's stupid looking for the compiler, though I won't invoke it thing. Not really satisfying, but it works.

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My solution (sets %WindowsSdkPath%, so that SetEnv.cmd could be found under %WindowsSdkPath%Bin\):

@ECHO OFF

IF "%WindowsSdkVersion%"=="" (
  CALL :SetWindowsSdkVersionHelper HKCU > nul 2>&1
  IF ERRORLEVEL 1 CALL :SetWindowsSdkVersionHelper HKLM > nul 2>&1
  IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ERROR_NOWSDK
)

CALL :SetWindowsSdkPathHelper > nul 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ERROR_NOWSDK
GOTO END

:SetWindowsSdkPathHelper
SET WindowsSdkPath=
FOR /F "tokens=1,2*" %%i in ('REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\%WindowsSdkVersion%" /V InstallationFolder') DO (
    IF "%%i"=="InstallationFolder" (
        SET "WindowsSdkPath=%%k"
    )
)
IF "%WindowsSdkPath%"=="" EXIT /B 1
EXIT /B 0

:SetWindowsSdkVersion
CALL :GetWindowsSdkVersionHelper HKCU > nul 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 CALL :GetWindowsSdkVersionHelper HKLM > nul 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 EXIT /B 1
EXIT /B 0

:SetWindowsSdkVersionHelper
SET WindowsSdkVersion=
FOR /F "tokens=1,2*" %%i in ('REG QUERY "%1\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows" /V "CurrentVersion"') DO (
    IF "%%i"=="CurrentVersion" (
        SET "WindowsSdkVersion=%%k"
    )
)
IF "%WindowsSdkVersion%"=="" EXIT /B 1
EXIT /B 0

:ERROR_NOWSDK
ECHO The Windows SDK %WindowsSdkVersion% could not be found.
EXIT /B 1

:END

I was inspired for this by the SetEnv.cmd itself...

Mac
Worth nothing that delims= is set to a tab character for this to work.
Jeff Yates
@Mac: Thanks for this. Just what I was looking for. :)
Jeff Yates
You're right, I had actually already improved that part at home (it didn't work well on Windows Server 2003). I edited my answer accordingly.
Mac
Revisiting my questions, I'll accept this one since it's the only one, and it should work and already helped someone. I'm still open for other solutions though :)
OregonGhost