Visual Studio 2015 doesn't have cl.exe - c++

I downloaded Visual C++ and Visual Studio, but I cannot find cl.exe to compile my C++ file. The path to the install is `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin.
Where can I find the compiler to compile C++ code?


Visual Studio 2015 doesn't install C++ by default. You have to rerun the setup, select Modify and then check Programming Language -> C++


In Visual Studio 2019 you can find cl.exe inside
32-BIT : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\bin\Hostx86\x86
64-BIT : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\bin\Hostx64\x64
Before trying to compile either run vcvars32 for 32-Bit compilation or vcvars64 for 64-Bit.
32-BIT : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
64-BIT : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
If you can't find the file or the directory, try going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC and see if you can find a folder with a version number. If you can't, then you probably haven't installed C++ through the Visual Studio Installation yet.


For me that have Visual Studio 2015 this works:
Search this in the start menu: Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 and run the program in the search result.
You can now execute your command in it, for example: cl /?


For first need check is installed cl.exe,
open Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 and type "where cl"
When its founded on the PC need add $(VC_LibraryPath_x64), $(WindowsSDK_LibraryPath_x64) and $(NETFXKitsDir)Lib\um\x64 to Project->Properties->VC++ Directories

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Choose a certain version of Visual Studio's command line toolkit and compile files against a certain version of a C++ run-time environment

I'm using Visual Studio 2017. Trying to compile a package using certain version of the C++ toolkit and to compile against a certain version a c++ run-time environment.
In my case that would mean the latest toolkit against the latest c++ run-time environment libraries.
How do I make this happen? I tried to use /std:c++17 or /std:latest but this results in a build compiled against vc140.dll.
The documentation of neither cl.exe nor link.exe gives any kind of a hint.
Any ideas? Thanks.

In the project properties UI you can set platform Toolset on the "General" page.
For v140 the resulting command lines start:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\CL.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\link.exe
but for v141 they start:-
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.12.25827\bin\HostX86\x86\CL.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.12.25827\bin\HostX86\x86\link.exe
You can read the command line for yourself if you set the build output to diagnostic (via Tools->Options->Build and Run).

You can set them here using the dropdown
(project properties)
(configuration properties)
(general)
(platform toolset)

Visual Studio 2017 failed to locate cl.exe

I recently installed Visual Studio 2017 and need to change something in a C++ project.
But when I try to build, it says cl.exe is missing. None of the solutions provided online seem to work.
I do have a cl.exe, but it is located under this path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX64\x64
I have also tried running vcvars32.bat, but that does not seem to make any changes.
And I have installed 'Desktop development with C++'.

I solved it by running vcvars.bat.
For Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 it is located under the following directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext

C++ command line compiler for Visual Studio 2012

I have installed Visual Studio Express 2012 and I have added cl.exe to my PATH but apparently is missing a dll ( ? ), the mspdb110.dll, I have also noticed that there are 2 cl.exe in 2 different paths:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64
how i can compile a file main.cpp from the command line with the VS compiler ?
Where I can find a reference for this compiler ?
Thanks.

Run the vcvarsall.bat batch file from the VC directory under whatever directory you installed Visual Studio to (e.g., on my PC, it's in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC). This batch file will configure the environment for toolchain use.
By default, it will configure the environment for use of the x86 native toolchain. You can also provide an argument to the batch file to use a different toolchain. For example, you can pass amd64 to use the native x64 toolchain, or x86_amd64 to use the x86 -> x64 cross compilation toolchain. Take a look at the contents of the batch file if you are interested in other options or what, exactly, it configures.

Making BJAM 1.33.1 in boost compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 8

When trying to build a boost 1.33.1 library with bjam, I keep getting thousands of errors with command similar to this:
CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\VCVARS32.BAT" >nul
Is there any way to change where bjam searchs for Microsoft Visual Studio for boost 1.33.1? My Visual Studio installation is located in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8"

Thank you for the suggestions ildjarn and Nicol Bolas.
I did a manual text search for VC98 and found an HTML help file, msvc-tools.html, which states that if the MSVC_ROOT variable defaults to "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98" if not specified. I simply set the MSVC_ROOT variable to my Visual Studio 8 directory and things compiled.

C++ #include <atlbase.h> is not found

When I compile my C++ program in Visual Studio Express it says that it can't find atlbase.h. Am I missing some SDK or something?

Visual Studio 2017
When running the Visual Studio Installer, select the Individual components tab, and under SDKs, libraries, and frameworks make sure Visual C++ ATL Support is selected.

It is included with the Windows Driver Kit Version 7.1.0.

Microsoft ATL (Active Template Library), which includes the header atlbase.h is included with the Windows 2003 SDK, but it is not included with any newer Windows SDK release. It is also included with Professional editions of Visual Studio.

Solution for Visual Studio 2017 Express edition
I had the same error when building a COM C++ project in Visual Studio 2017 Express edition. As mentioned by several users here, ATL support is not included with the Express edition of Visual Studio. So to build a C++ COM/ATL project you need at least the Community edition.
If you really need to use the Express edition, you can download and install the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017. Make sure to enable the 'Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64' component during the setup.
After that add additional VC++ directories in the project properties:
Include directories: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\atlmfc\include
Library directories: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\atlmfc\lib\x86
The VC++ compiler should now be able to find the ATL source and library files.

For users of Visual Studio 2015, ensure Common Tools for C++ is installed (part of the VS installer).

Situation
With Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, we installed "Visual C++ ATL support" and MFC and ATL support. The error still occurred in our x64 project.
Solution
We fixed some paths with the following two commands:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC>mklink /d atlmfc "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib>mklink /d amd64 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib\x64
Details
We eventually found the header atlbase.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\include. This path simply was not added to the VC Include directory by vsvars32.bat, so the header was not found during build.
vsvars32.bat includes the following line:
#if exist "%VCINSTALLDIR%ATLMFC\INCLUDE" set INCLUDE=%VCINSTALLDIR%ATLMFC\INCLUDE;%INCLUDE%`.
This resolved to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\atlmfc\include in our machine.
We created a directory junction, so the build tool finds atlbase.h in the expected directory (this is the first command from the Solution section above):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC>mklink /d atlmfc "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc"
Afterwards, the linker did not find atls.lib (see Cannot Open File atls.lib). This was due to the expected file structure was that lib should directly contain the x86 version of the libs and lib\amd64 should contain the x64 variants. Instead, lib\x86 contained the x86 versions and lib\x64 contained the 64 bit versions. Since we build a 64 bit project, creating another directory junk from amd64 to x64 solved the problem:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib>mklink /d amd64 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib\x64

That header appears to be a part of the Windows Platform SDK.
You should search your computer for the file. That will tell you if you're missing it.

I had same problem with sample project. I specified the sample project's properties and the sample project compiled successfully.
Visual Studio 8
For header
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include
For .lib file
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\lib

I have not yet seen anyone mention Visual Studio 2015 (MSBuild 14.0). In this case I've had to download Visual C++ BuildTools (found here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/). After having installed this, running the installer again allowed me to modify the installation and include the ATL libs.
Hope this helps anyone that is still using MSBuild 14.0