diff --git a/configure/tools/useManifestTool.pl b/configure/tools/useManifestTool.pl
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+eval 'exec perl -S -w  $0 ${1+"$@"}'  # -*- Mode: perl -*-
+        if 0; 
+
+#
+# Use MS Visual C++ compiler version number to determine if
+# we want to use the Manifest Tool (status=1) or not (status=0)
+#
+# VC compiler versions >= 14.00 will have status=1
+# VC compiler versions 10.00 - 13.10 will have status=0
+# EPICS builds with older VC compilers is not supported
+#
+
+my $versionString=`cl 2>&1`;
+
+if ($versionString =~ m/Version 14./) {
+ $status=1;
+} elsif ($versionString =~ m/Version 13.10/){
+ $status=0;
+} elsif ($versionString =~ m/Version 13.0/){
+ $status=0;
+} elsif ($versionString =~ m/Version 12./){
+ $status=0;
+} elsif ($versionString =~ m/Version 11./){
+ $status=0;
+} elsif ($versionString =~ m/Version 10./){
+ $status=0;
+} else {
+ $status=1;
+}
+print "$status\n";
+exit;