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| author | Scott McMurray <scottmcm@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-05-13 21:54:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Scott McMurray <scottmcm@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-05-13 23:17:54 -0700 |
| commit | 7171bd1f69fb1c1a999b8e968fc693da325f3cc4 (patch) | |
| tree | f9d74ec921b80398fe9b077cebd107f69eb06fbb | |
| parent | a9ec99f4201ec33026a468ef1289f98a95b4d71a (diff) | |
README: Mention MSVC 2017+, not 2013(!)
LLVM will soon require 2017+ [1] (and our in-tree version just rejected the version of 2015 I was using), so update the mention and provide a link. [1]: https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#host-c-toolchain-both-compiler-and-standard-library
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f6f796911b8..75d7823490a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -128,9 +128,15 @@ build. #### MSVC [windows-msvc]: #windows-msvc -MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2013 -(or later) so `rustc` can use its linker. Make sure to check the “C++ tools” -option. +MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2017 +(or later) so `rustc` can use its linker. The simplest way is to get the +[Visual Studio Build Tools] and check the “C++ build tools” workload. + +[Visual Studio Build Tools]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019 + +At last check (cmake 3.14.3 and msvc 16.0.3) using the 2019 tools fails to +build the in-tree LLVM build with a CMake error, so use 2017 instead by +including the “MSVC v141 – VS 2017 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.16)” component. With these dependencies installed, you can build the compiler in a `cmd.exe` shell with: |