vswhere Command Examples

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations. More information: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere.

• Find the path of vcvarsall.bat to set environment variables:

vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat

• Find the directory of the x64 MSVC compiler (cl.exe, etc):

vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\Hostx64\x64\*

• Find the directory of Clang bundled with Visual Studio bundled (clang-cl, clang-tidy, etc):

vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\Llvm\bin\*

• Find the path of MSBuild.exe:

vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find MSBuild\**\Bin\MSBuild.exe