MSVC: Check catalog_productSemanticVersion instead of catalog_productDisplayVersion
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Currently, when you have an Insiders (pre-release) version of Visual Studio 2026 installed, you will get the following error when trying to build Godot (or at least, I did when I tried that):
This is because the build script currently checks the
catalog_productDisplayVersionproperty of the newest version of Visual Studio currently installed, including pre-release versions. While for most stable releases this property actually is set as the semantic version, for the Insiders versions this version is set asInsiders [xxx.yyy].Running
vswhere.exe -latest -prerelease -products * -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -utf8gives some version strings which could work better as semantic versions, especiallycatalog_productSemanticVersionsince it actually follows thex.y.z[-suffix]format: