commit 2fa53cfa8960f4bcb36718da4424e980fc305ef5
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Sun Jan 20 11:06:08 2019 -0800
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sun Jan 20 11:06:08 2019 -0800
tree a8b899e3efdefb6eb1b839d90820425035b110bf
parent 47290e7642dd41d94437dd0e2c0f6bfceb0281b5

bpo-35699: fix distuils cannot detect Build Tools 2017 anymore (GH-11495)

(cherry picked from commit b2dc4a3313c236fedbd6df664722cd47f3d91a72)

Co-authored-by: Marc Schlaich <marc.schlaich@googlemail.com>

Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py
index 84b4ef5..58b20a2 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/_msvccompiler.py
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
             "-prerelease",
             "-requires", "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64",
             "-property", "installationPath",
+            "-products", "*",
         ], encoding="mbcs", errors="strict").strip()
     except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
         return None, None