I am trying all kinds of variants of the following command:
powershell -command "'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\vc\vcvarsall.bat' x86" -noexit
I am hoping to run Powershell with the VS environment vars - to no avail. I just cannot get the quotes right.
Have a look at the PowerShell Community Extensions. It comes with a command to invoke a batch file, "remember" what env vars it set and bring those into your PowerShell session. In fact, my profile does just this with the VS vars e.g.:
Import-Module Pscx
function Import-VS9Vars
{
$vcargs = ?: {$Pscx:Is64BitProcess} {'amd64'} {'x86'}
Push-EnvironmentBlock -Description "Before importing VS 2008 $vcargs var"
Invoke-BatchFile "${env:VS90COMNTOOLS}..\..\VC\vcvarsall.bat" $vcargs
}
function Import-VS10Vars
{
$vcargs = ?: {$Pscx:Is64BitProcess} {'amd64'} {'x86'}
Push-EnvironmentBlock -Description "Before importing VS 2010 $vcargs vars"
Invoke-BatchFile "${env:VS100COMNTOOLS}..\..\VC\vcvarsall.bat" $vcargs
}
Import-VS10Vars
The important command is the Invoke-BatchFile. The source to this function comes in the download so if you don't want to use the whole module, you can copy out just that one function if you'd like.
Check out Get-BatchFile from Bruce Payette's "Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition"
It’s also possible to use these batch files from PowerShell by executing them, dumping the changes that have been made to the environment, and then importing those changes back into the PowerShell environment.
