Visual C++ installed, but cannot find cl.exe?

Visual C++ installed, but cannot find cl.exe?

 

Question

 

Hello,

I have Visual C++ installed, and I am able to create programs and compile them using the IDE, but I cannot find the actual file of the compiler anywhere on my computer. I know it is cl.exe is the compiler, but doing a search on my hard drive yields no results. I looked in the Microsoft.NET folder but it is not one of the applications there (along with csc.exe, etc.). I really would like to compile from my command line by adding cl.exe to my system path, but I can't do that until I actually find the location of cl.exe.

Thank you very much for any help.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:52 PM

 

 

Answers

 

Look in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin

Should find it there.

You can also run vcvars32.bat from there to set up your environment.

 

Tom

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:38 PM