# vswhere

> Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations.
> More information: <https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere>.

- Find the path of vcvarsall.bat to set environment variables:

`vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat`

- Find the directory of the x64 MSVC compiler (cl.exe, etc):

`vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\Hostx64\x64\*`

- Find the directory of Clang bundled with Visual Studio bundled (clang-cl, clang-tidy, etc):

`vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find **\Llvm\bin\*`

- Find the path of `MSBuild.exe`:

`vswhere -products * -latest -prerelease -find MSBuild\**\Bin\MSBuild.exe`