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Visual Studio 2015 express missing amd64 option


I have a problem with Visual Studio 2015 Express that it seems to be missing files needed to setup the environment for a 64 bit compilation.

I have installed both Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows 10 and Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows Desktop. Now when I call the vcvarsall.bat with the option amd64 to setup the environment for a 64bit compilation I get the error message:

"The specified configuration type is missing. The tools for the configuration might not be installed."

I check in my installations folder and I have vcvarsall.bat in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC but I'm missing vcvars64.bat in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64 which seems to be required. What am I missing?


Solution

  • Visual Studio Express editions do not include the x64 toolset.