fix vs cannot get year from VS 2026 and bump version to 0.2.13

.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        os: [ ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest ] # macos-latest arm64, macos-13 intel
+        os: [ ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest, windows-2025-vs2026 ]
         test_script: ${{ fromJSON(needs.list-test-files.outputs.test-files) }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Codes
@@ -73,10 +73,6 @@ jobs:
           python-version: 3.14
           cache: 'pip'
 
-      - name: Add msbuild to PATH
-        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
-        uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
-
       - name: install
         run: |
           pip install pip pytest tabulate regex setuptools build wheel -U
@@ -120,44 +116,45 @@ jobs:
             pip install -v .
             pytest --durations=0 tests/${{ matrix.test_script }}.py
 
-  solaris:
-    needs:
-      - list-test-files
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        test_script: ${{ fromJSON(needs.list-test-files.outputs.test-files) }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          submodules: recursive
-          ref: ${{ env.ref }}
-
-      - name: clean dir
-        run: rm -rf .git
-
-      - name: Test in Solaris
-        uses: vmactions/solaris-vm@v1
-        with:
-          prepare: |
-            pkg install developer/gcc developer/build/gnu-make developer/build/pkg-config developer/versioning/git web/curl
-          copyback: false
-          run: |
-            curl -V
-
-            echo "=============="
-
-            export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/amd64 -L/usr/lib/64"
-            export CFLAGS="-m64"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/amd64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
-
-            python -V
-            python -m venv venv
-            source venv/bin/activate
-            pip install pip pytest tabulate regex setuptools build wheel -U
-            pip install -v .
-            pytest --durations=0 tests/${{ matrix.test_script }}.py
+  # unable to fix, disabled
+  #  solaris:
+  #    needs:
+  #      - list-test-files
+  #    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+  #    strategy:
+  #      fail-fast: false
+  #      matrix:
+  #        test_script: ${{ fromJSON(needs.list-test-files.outputs.test-files) }}
+  #    steps:
+  #      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+  #        with:
+  #          submodules: recursive
+  #          ref: ${{ env.ref }}
+  #
+  #      - name: clean dir
+  #        run: rm -rf .git
+  #
+  #      - name: Test in Solaris
+  #        uses: vmactions/solaris-vm@v1
+  #        with:
+  #          prepare: |
+  #            pkg install developer/gcc developer/build/gnu-make developer/build/pkg-config developer/versioning/git web/curl
+  #          copyback: false
+  #          run: |
+  #            curl -V
+  #
+  #            echo "=============="
+  #
+  #            export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/amd64 -L/usr/lib/64"
+  #            export CFLAGS="-m64"
+  #            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/amd64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
+  #
+  #            python -V
+  #            python -m venv venv
+  #            source venv/bin/activate
+  #            pip install pip pytest tabulate regex setuptools build wheel -U
+  #            pip install -v .
+  #            pytest --durations=0 tests/${{ matrix.test_script }}.py
 
   wsl:
     needs:

README.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Modern `nogil` Python bindings for the Pcre2 library with `stdlib.re` api compat
 * 02/24/2026 [0.2.10](https://github.com/ModelCloud/PyPcre/releases/tag/v0.2.10): Allow VisualStudio (VS) compiler version check override via env var. 
 * 12/15/2025 [0.2.8](https://github.com/ModelCloud/PyPcre/releases/tag/v0.2.8): Fixed multi-arch Linux os compatibility where both x86_64 and i386 libs of pcre2 are installed. 
 * 10/20/2025 [0.2.4](https://github.com/ModelCloud/PyPcre/releases/tag/v0.2.4): Removed dependency on system having python3-dev packge. python.h will be optimistically downloaded from python.org when needed.
-* 10/12/2025 [0.2.3](https://github.com/ModelCloud/PyPcre/releases/tag/v0.2.3): 🤗 Full `GIL=0` compliance for Python >= 3.13T. Reduced cache thread contention. Improved performance for all api. Expanded ci testing coverage. FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows compatibility validated.
+* 10/12/2025 [0.2.3](https://github.com/ModelCloud/PyPcre/releases/tag/v0.2.3): 🤗 Full `GIL=0` compliance for Python >= 3.13T. Reduced cache thread contention. Improved performance for all api. Expanded ci testing coverage. FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows compatibility validated.
 * 10/09/2025 [0.1.0](https://github.com/ModelCloud/PyPcre/releases/tag/v0.1.0): 🎉 First release. Thread safe, auto JIT, auto pattern caching and optimistic linking to system library for fast install.
 
 ## Why PyPcre:
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The package prioritizes linking against the `libpcre2-8` shared library in syste
 
 ## Platform Support (Validated):
 
-`Linux`, `MacOS`, `Windows`, `WSL`, `FreeBSD`, `Solaris`
+`Linux`, `MacOS`, `Windows`, `WSL`, `FreeBSD`
 
 
 ## Usage
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ When `pkg-config` is available the build will automatically pick up the
 required include and link flags via `pkg-config --cflags/--libs libpcre2-8`.
 Without `pkg-config`, the build script scans common installation prefixes for
 Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, openSUSE, Alpine),
-FreeBSD, macOS (including Homebrew), and Solaris to locate the headers and
+FreeBSD and macOS (including Homebrew) to locate the headers and
 libraries.
 
 If your system ships `libpcre2-8` under `/usr` but you also maintain a

pyproject.toml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "PyPcre"
-version = "0.2.12"
+version = "0.2.13"
 description = "Modern, GIL-friendly, Fast Python bindings for PCRE2 with auto caching and JIT of compiled patterns."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"

setup_utils.py

@@ -481,7 +481,11 @@ def _find_vswhere():
 def _detect_vs_generator():
     vswhere = _find_vswhere()
     if not vswhere:
-        return None
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "unable to find vswhere.exe\n"
+            "Please install Visual Studio Build Tools:\n"
+            f"{VS_DOWNLOAD_URL}"
+        )
 
     result = subprocess.run(
         [
@@ -497,33 +501,41 @@ def _detect_vs_generator():
     )
 
     if result.returncode != 0:
-        return None
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"vswhere failed.\n"
+            f"exit code: {result.returncode}\n"
+            f"stdout: {result.stdout.strip()}\n"
+            f"stderr: {result.stderr.strip()}\n"
+        )
+
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(result.stdout or "[]")
+    except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"unable to parse vswhere output. Output: {result.stdout}"
+        ) from e
 
-    data = json.loads(result.stdout or "[]")
     if not data:
-        return None
+        raise RuntimeError(f"vswhere cannot find a valid VS installation: {result.stdout}")
 
     info = data[0]
 
     ver = info.get("installationVersion", "")
     major = ver.split(".")[0]
 
-    year = info.get("catalog", {}).get("productLineVersion")
-
-    if not year:
-        year_map = {
-            "15": "2017",
-            "16": "2019",
-            "17": "2022",
-            "18": "2026",
-        }
-        year = year_map.get(major)
+    year_map = {
+        "15": "2017",
+        "16": "2019",
+        "17": "2022",
+        "18": "2026",
+    }
+    year = year_map.get(str(major))
 
     if year:
         return f"Visual Studio {major} {year}"
 
     raise RuntimeError(
-        f"Unknown Visual Studio version: installationVersion={ver}, major={major}, year={year}"
+        f"Unknown Visual Studio version: installationVersion={ver}, major={major}, year={year}. vswhere result: {result.stdout}"
     )
 
 
@@ -637,12 +649,6 @@ def _has_built_library() -> bool:
             # On Windows, force MSVC and the /MD runtime. Never let CMake pick MinGW.
             if _is_windows_platform():
                 vs_gen = os.environ.get("CMAKE_GENERATOR", _detect_vs_generator())
-                if not vs_gen:
-                    raise RuntimeError(
-                        "Visual Studio not found.\n"
-                        "Please install Visual Studio Build Tools:\n"
-                        f"{VS_DOWNLOAD_URL}"
-                    )
                 cmake_args += [
                     "-G", vs_gen,
                     "-A", "x64",