Export MSBUILD env variable

[phated]

I'm using this action to build CPython in an environment with a "scrubbed" PATH, and their build scripts expect an env var named MSBUILD.

Would it make sense to export that env var from this action for later steps to use?

[jwillemsen]

Maybe make the name of the expected env var an option, you need MSBUILD but maybe someone else needs a different name

[timheuer]

@phated does the tool allow you to override and provide the path or it's hard-coded to look for MSBUILD env?

[phated]

@timheuer it's actually the CPython build process itself. And yeah, they look for the MSBUILD env variable first, then search in the path. Usually searching in the path is fine, but some build environments need to use a scrubbed path for clean builds, so having the MSBUILD env variable set still allows for the CPython build to succeed.