Find msbuild.exe location from registry about pythonnet HOT 5 CLOSED

I can take a look at that

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These two links have helpful info

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2013/07/24/msbuild-is-now-part-of-visual-studio.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397428.aspx

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hmmm, turns out this is a bit more tricky. The RGiesecke.DllExport tool depends on being able to find lib.exe, and as far as I can tell that's not included in the Windows SDK, only in Visual Studio.

Is it that much of a problem to have to have visual studio installed? I'd imagine most people building extensions would have it (or at least the express version).

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Certainly not an important point. I'm moving it to a backlog, if someone at some point wants to take a crack at this, great, otherwise we will just ignore.

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I implemented this in #18 now for two reasons: I'm trying out appveyor for a windows ci solution and it doesn't have vs installed, and a newer rgiesecke version might not require access to lib.exe, so we might be good on that one as well.

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