Folder "Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0" Is Missing

Question

I'm trying to add pthread library to Visual Studio 2017 (I'm using Windows 10 OS). I'm using the following guide from another post tat I saw, but I can't find the "Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0" folder in "C:\Program Files x86". I have Visual Studio 2017 and It's working. I've checked and I've installed the Visual Studio C++. What else should I install? Is there any other way to include pthread library by just adding it to the project and including the path to the library in the linker or something similar?

Thank you

Answer 1

Since visual studio 2017 visual studio is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\<version>\<edition> by default eg C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community . There are other changes to the internal layout of files within the visual studio directory too. Your guide seems to only provide libraries for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, these won't work in 2017, you should try to find an updated guide (or just use std::thread instead of pthread s).

Installing these files inside the visual studio directory isn't the right approach anyway, install them to a directory of your choice and update your project settings to point to that directory. The lazy approach in the guide is likely to cause problems in the long run.