1320018 - mozillabuild-Unable to call a suitable vcvars script(start-shell-msvc2015.bat)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Steps to reproduce:

I download the Mozilla-build(v2.2.0), and I want to build the application of firefox within my Windows 7(64 bit), Visual Studio Community 2015 also has been installed already.


Actual results:

when I try to run start-shell-msvc2015.bat, the command line just give me the error message below:
>MozillaBuild Install Directory: C:\mozilla-build\
>Visual C++ 2015 Directory: C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\
>Unable to call a suitable vcvars script. Exiting 


Expected results:

The start-shell-msvc2015.bat will be normally started!

Comment 1

[mikewbmaster]

Anyone can help. I am also facing the same problem.I tried to follow the install instruction but I am not sure if 
select Programming Languages > Visual C++ > Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015 still apply as i don't see the options.

Comment 2

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

Triaging, old bug, this doesn't apply anymore.  For reference, here are the current Windows build instructions 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites