Use architecture-appropriate desktop MSBuild and remove Prefer64bit switch#17026
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[WIP] Use x64 version of desktop msbuild if process arch is amd64
Use architecture-appropriate desktop MSBuild (amd64/arm64) by default
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Use architecture-appropriate desktop MSBuild (amd64/arm64) by default
Use architecture-appropriate desktop MSBuild and remove Prefer64bit switch
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Pull request overview
Updates Arcade’s Visual Studio MSBuild discovery to select a desktop msbuild.exe that matches the effective host architecture (including WOW64 scenarios), removing the previous Prefer64bit opt-in path that made non-x86 MSBuild effectively unreachable in many cases.
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InitializeVisualStudioMSBuildto chooseBin\amd64\msbuild.exeorBin\arm64\msbuild.exebased on host/process environment architecture, with a safe fallback toBin\msbuild.exe. - Remove the
Prefer64bitselection logic.
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| File | Description |
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| eng/common/tools.ps1 | Updates MSBuild exe selection to be architecture-appropriate by default and removes the Prefer64bit switch logic. |
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Desktop MSBuild was always launched as x86, even on amd64/arm64 hosts. The
Prefer64bitopt-in (from #7531) never became the default, so the x64 MSBuild was effectively unreachable, and arm64 was never considered.GetMSBuildExeineng/common/tools.ps1now selects the desktop MSBuild matching the host process architecture:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE, falling back toPROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432so a 32-bit process on a 64-bit OS resolves the real machine arch.AMD64→amd64\msbuild.exe,ARM64→arm64\msbuild.exe; anything else uses the root (32-bit)msbuild.exe.msbuild.exe.Prefer64bitswitch and its read from global.json (tools.vs), since arch-appropriate selection is now unconditional.To double check: