[3.11] gh-110437: Allow overriding VCRuntimeDLL with a semicolon separated list of DLLs to bundle (GH-110470)

miss-islington · zooba · web-flow · commit 26c3e700b15b · 2023-10-09T11:42:57.000Z
gh-110437: Allow overriding VCRuntimeDLL with a semicolon separated list of DLLs to bundle (GH-110470) (cherry picked from commit 12cc679) Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-10-06-14-20-14.gh-issue-110437.xpYy9q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2023-10-06-14-20-14.gh-issue-110437.xpYy9q.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Allows overriding the source of VC redistributables so that releases can be
+guaranteed to never downgrade between updates.
diff --git a/PCbuild/pyproject.props b/PCbuild/pyproject.props
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ public override bool Execute() {
   </Target>
 
   <Target Name="FindVCRuntime" Returns="VCRuntimeDLL" DependsOnTargets="FindVCRedistDir">
-    <ItemGroup Condition="$(VCInstallDir) != ''">
+    <ItemGroup Condition="$(VCRuntimeDLL) != ''">
+      <VCRuntimeDLL Include="$(VCRuntimeDLL)" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+    <ItemGroup Condition="$(VCInstallDir) != '' and $(VCRuntimeDLL) == ''">
       <VCRuntimeDLL Include="$(VCRedistDir)\Microsoft.VC*.CRT\vcruntime*.dll" />
     </ItemGroup>
 

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	`2`	`+guaranteed to never downgrade between updates.`