bpo-38088: Fixes distutils not finding vcruntime140.dll with only v14…

…2 toolset installed (pythonGH-15849)
zooba · Sep 10, 2019 · 8ddeccf · 8ddeccf
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def _find_vcvarsall(plat_spec):
     vcruntime_plat = 'x64' if 'amd64' in plat_spec else 'x86'
     if best_dir:
         vcredist = os.path.join(best_dir, "..", "..", "redist", "MSVC", "**",
-            "Microsoft.VC141.CRT", "vcruntime140.dll")
+            vcruntime_plat, "Microsoft.VC14*.CRT", "vcruntime140.dll")
         try:
             import glob
             vcruntime = glob.glob(vcredist, recursive=True)[-1]

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-10-14-17-25.bpo-38088.FOvWSM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-09-10-14-17-25.bpo-38088.FOvWSM.rst
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+Fixes distutils not finding vcruntime140.dll with only the v142 toolset
+installed.