1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/app/qbs-setup-toolchains/msvcprobe.cpp b/src/app/qbs-setup-toolchains/msvcprobe.cpp
index bb54add9f..00aedaaab 100644
--- a/src/app/qbs-setup-toolchains/msvcprobe.cpp
+++ b/src/app/qbs-setup-toolchains/msvcprobe.cpp
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 #include <QtCore/qstringlist.h>
 
 #include <algorithm>
+#include <set>
 #include <vector>
 
 using namespace qbs;
@@ -182,8 +183,20 @@ void msvcProbe(Settings *settings, std::vector<Profile> &profiles)
         }
     }
 
+    // we want the same MSVC version share the same suffix in profiles, thus use
+    // a set to know the number of versions processed so far
+    std::map<QString /*VS*/, std::set<QString /*vcInstallPath*/>> msvcCounters;
     for (MSVC &msvc : msvcs) {
-        const QString name = QLatin1String("MSVC") + msvc.version + QLatin1Char('-')
+        // each VS needs its own counter
+        auto &msvcVersions = msvcCounters[msvc.version];
+        // vcInstallPath is "Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Enterprise/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin"
+        // Since msvcs are sorted by version, when the new vcInstallPath is inserted, we start
+        // a new group of compilers of the same version incrementing the set size
+        msvcVersions.insert(msvc.vcInstallPath);
+        // index is the number of specific vcInstallPaths (e.g. compiler versions) seen so far
+        const qsizetype index = msvcVersions.size() - 1;
+        const QString suffix = index == 0 ? QString() : QStringLiteral("-%1").arg(index);
+        const QString name = QLatin1String("MSVC") + msvc.version + suffix + QLatin1Char('-')
                 + msvc.architecture;
         try {
             msvc.init();