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We had too many obscure options for the MSVC build. The configury logic tried to take into consideration Registry keys or file locations that likely never happen with the compilers we suppport (2008, 2010 or 2012) or the Windows SDKs from the same era. Now there is just an option --with-visual-studio that can be used to specify which Visual Studio version to use in case several are installed. It takes as parameter the "year" version, 2008, 2010 or 2012. (There is also --with-windows-sdk that takes the version number like 7.1A or 8.0, but I expect that this option will not be needed.) The code tries hard to use sane defaults in all cases. It is quite likely that there are bugs in the new logic. Those will have to be fixed once noticed. Hopefully the basic idea is sane, though. Change-Id: I0a53acd334d35cbf2cd2fbc76a38d636e0d0123d
solver means "Solar Version", a weird name with only historical significance now
It has no relation to the verb "to solve".
solver is the directory tree into which header files for inter-module
use and build results (libraries, shared libraries, executables) are
copied ("delivered") during the build, and from where they are then
picked up when constructing an installer (Windows), a RPM or deb
package (Linux) or an app bundle (Mac).