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| author | Keno Fischer <kfischer@college.harvard.edu> | 2016-02-07 19:36:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Keno Fischer <kfischer@college.harvard.edu> | 2016-02-07 19:36:54 +0000 |
| commit | 3c30544ace45568acd79da91f2879b04de2d8a86 (patch) | |
| tree | 895ef6107220bb24ec18715fd4f5ee10bc7006f6 /llvm | |
| parent | d35e98fa918526b9b24bc71d8f9cdcf0d8efaeda (diff) | |
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[docs] Add a note that the Visual Studio C++ tools are required
Watching new contributors trying to build LLVM on Windows, one of the
very common failure modes was getting a version of Visual Studio
that did not have a C++ compiler for CMake to put up. Trying to create
a C++ project in Visual Studio will cause Visual Studio to go and
download the C++ tools.
llvm-svn: 260049
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diff --git a/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst b/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst index 0ca50904ce4..566a0f88c9c 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst @@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ Here's the short story for getting up and running quickly with LLVM: using LLVM. Another important option is ``LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD``, which controls the LLVM target architectures that are included on the build. + * If CMake complains that it cannot find the compiler, make sure that + you have the Visual Studio C++ Tools installed, not just Visual Studio + itself (trying to create a C++ project in Visual Studio will generally + download the C++ tools if they haven't already been). * See the :doc:`LLVM CMake guide <CMake>` for detailed information about how to configure the LLVM build. * CMake generates project files for all build types. To select a specific |
