Jess Perkins

I guess the question is how much of an "edge" is this edge case? Poking around the open questions on StackOverflow, there a number of "my project won't link library...

> Just from familiarity with winapi, I believe it is "ar" that cannot be found. Right, I get that, I was just poking fun at the not useful error message....

Tried to replace with `ar` with `llvm-ar`. Worked fine on my macOS boxes, but the CI build failed because `llvm-ar` isn't found on those servers. Guess that answers the question?...

The best way to get this done would be for someone to submit a PR with instructions for use. I can get any necessary steps added to our release checklist...

This sounds like a good approach to me? I imagine lots of things would break if GitHub changed the release file URIs so I'm not too concerned about relying on...

This looks reasonable to me—thanks for looking into it!

Well…presumably VS can handle upgrading from version to version. I'd say just add things as they are needed, or as they become an issue. I wouldn't try to keep up...

Adding new command line options is easy enough, so we could certainly support something like: premake5 vs2017 # target the most up-to-date settings premake5 vs2017 --target-version=15.5 # or something like...

FYI, I have most of this working in Premake6, though most of the features which would use it haven't been ported yet. I've modified how options are parsed on the...

Related discussion at #1480.