[suggestion] toolset support for msvc compiler

[MarcelRaad]

Continuing from conan-io/tribe#32 (comment):

I'm currently using the non-default v141_xp and ClangCL toolsets with the Visual Studio compiler and the CMake and MSBuild build helpers from conans. I've just started trying to switch to the msvc compiler and the new build helpers from conan.tools. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to specify a toolset there.

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

[memsharded]

Hi @MarcelRaad

I have added support for _xp toolsets in #10808 for the msvc compiler.
It would be great if you could have a look, ideally running Conan from my PR source branch, and report.

Regarding ClangCL, that would need some more thinking, but I believe adding xp toolsets as a start sounds good.

[MarcelRaad]

Thanks, sounds good, I'll have a look! Might take me a while though as I'm not very familiar with Python development yet. (Edit: your README.rst is great though, so it will probably not take that long 👍 )

[memsharded]

Thanks, sounds good, I'll have a look! Might take me a while though as I'm not very familiar with Python development yet. (Edit: your README.rst is great though, so it will probably not take that long 👍 )

Yes, the git clone + git checkout <branch> + pip install -e . works quite well. Looking forward your feedback!

[MarcelRaad]

Tested with the new CMake build helper + Visual Studio 2022 (17.0) + v141_xp toolset and it works great. Thanks a lot! 👍

[memsharded]

Excellent, thanks for the feedback @MarcelRaad !

[memsharded]

I am going to open a new issue for the clang toolsets.