Where are the x64 and ARM Developer Prompts for VS2017?

Question

I installed the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools. After installation, there's only an x86 Developer Command Prompt when navigating Start → Programs → Visual Studio 2017 → Visual Studio Tools. There are no prompts for x64 and ARM. (Usually there's about 6 developer prompts to choose from).

Where are the build tools for x64 and ARM located?

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UPDATE (JAN-18-2017)

After installing the entire Windows 10 SDK, Build 15003 per @magicandre1981 instructions, I cannot find the Developer Prompts. I can't find them in the Start menu; and dropping into a Git Bash shell and searching for them returns 0 results.

In the names below, vsdevcmd.bat is what was installed by the VC++ Build Tools for 2017. vcbuildtools.bat is what was installed by the VC++ Build Tools for 2015.

MINGW64 /c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10
$ find . -iname 'vsdevcmd.*'

$ find . -iname 'vcbuildtools.*'

$ find . -iname '*.bat'

$ find . -iname '*.cmd'
./bin/10.0.15003.0/arm/SecureBoot/DeleteKitsPolicy.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/arm/SecureBoot/InstallKitsPolicy.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/arm64/install-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/arm64/uninstall-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/x64/install-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/x64/uninstall-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/x86/DismFoDInstall.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/x86/GenerateUnionWinMD.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/x86/install-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/10.0.15003.0/x86/uninstall-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/arm/SecureBoot/DeleteKitsPolicy.cmd
./bin/arm/SecureBoot/InstallKitsPolicy.cmd
./bin/arm64/install-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/arm64/uninstall-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/x64/install-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/x64/uninstall-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/x86/DismFoDInstall.cmd
./bin/x86/GenerateUnionWinMD.cmd
./bin/x86/install-sampleprovider.cmd
./bin/x86/uninstall-sampleprovider.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/cv2http.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/cvsindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/p4index.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/ssindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/svnindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/tfsindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/vssindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x64/srcsrv/walk.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/cv2http.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/cvsindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/p4index.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/ssindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/svnindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/tfsindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/vssindex.cmd
./Debuggers/x86/srcsrv/walk.cmd
./Windows Performance Toolkit/gpuview/log.cmd
./Windows Performance Toolkit/gpuview/log_mem.cmd
./Windows Performance Toolkit/WdfPerfEnhancedVerifier.cmd

$

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Out of desperation, I copied the 2017 Build Tools Developer Prompt (for x86), and added the amd64_arm as the 2015 build tools does. It results in a failure:

[ERROR:parse_cmd.bat] Invalid command line argument: 'amd64_arm'. Argument will
be ignored.
**********************************************************************
** Visual Studio 2017 RC Developer Command Prompt v15.0
** Copyright (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation
**********************************************************************
[ERROR:VsDevCmd.bat] *** VsDevCmd.bat encountered errors. Environment may be inc
omplete and/or incorrect. ***

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools>

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More desperation... I started tracing the msiexec installers using process monitor, and examining MSI contents using 7-zip. The best I can tell, there are no developer prompts, even in the Developer Tools MSI installer:

Answer 1

The developer prompt bat files seem to have been restructured a little in VS 2017. Instead of having a fixed set of predefined developer prompts, you can customize it even more now.

To get a developer prompt for e.g. arm, add -arch=arm -host_arch=amd64 as parameters to VsDevCmd.bat (e.g. in the shortcut in the start menu).

For the full list of available options, have a look in \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\core\parse_cmd.bat, or call "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd" -help.

I'm not sure if this really is documented anywhere, or if it will be fixed up and/or documented better for the final release of VS 2017.

Installing the insider preview Windows 10 SDK is unrelated to this; the standalone Windows SDK doesn't include any compilers, only headers and link libraries.

Answer 2

Install the Windows 10 SDK and WDK (at least Build 16299) to get the ARM Compiler for Desktop Applications.

Open the Project configuration and create ARM(64) configuration:

If you try to compile it you would get an error that ARM64 is not supported for Desktop:

To fix this, unload the project and open it in editor and add the line <WindowsSDKDesktopARM64Support>true</WindowsSDKDesktopARM64Support> to the debug and release entry for ARM64:

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|ARM64'" Label="Configuration">
    <ConfigurationType>Application</ConfigurationType>
    <UseDebugLibraries>true</UseDebugLibraries>
    <PlatformToolset>v141</PlatformToolset>
    <CharacterSet>Unicode</CharacterSet>
    <WindowsSDKDesktopARM64Support>true</WindowsSDKDesktopARM64Support>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|ARM64'" Label="Configuration">
    <ConfigurationType>Application</ConfigurationType>
    <UseDebugLibraries>false</UseDebugLibraries>
    <PlatformToolset>v141</PlatformToolset>
    <WholeProgramOptimization>true</WholeProgramOptimization>
    <CharacterSet>Unicode</CharacterSet>
    <WindowsSDKDesktopARM64Support>true</WindowsSDKDesktopARM64Support>
  </PropertyGroup>

and WindowsSDKDesktopARMSupport for 32Bit ARM.

Save changes, load the project again and now compilation works fine:

The 15.9 Update for VS2017, adds official ARM64 support (only for UWP), here the commandline to open ARM64 dev prompt is:

%comspec% /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" amd64_arm

32 Bit Arm commandline is:

%comspec% /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" x86_arm