[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: Fix Microsoft tools detection

[Martin Storsjö]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Marvin Scholz wrote:

>
>
> On 3 Feb 2022, at 12:55, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 12:34 PM Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I remember that there has been some variance throughout the versions 
>>> for
>>> exactly what MSVC prints as the identification thoughout the 
>>> versions, but
>>> I think 'Microsoft.*Optimizing.*Compiler' should be safe.
>>>
>>
>> I was wondering if non-english locale would translate that string, but
>> I can't easily test that, I don't think.
>>
>
> Sorry, need to correct myself. It is indeed localized I was just lacking
> the language pack…
>
> For example in german it is:
>
> Microsoft (R) C/C++-Optimierungscompiler Version 19.30.30709 für x64
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Oh, thanks for that!

I presume that this also could break the other existing check for armasm 
too? If you run e.g. "vsdevcmd -host_arch=x64 -arch=arm64" and then 
"armasm64", what does that print?

// Martin