From 3108680e43ff2477bfac084c9a5b3d475f8d5667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zyg Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 21:59:05 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] buildsystem: update windows msvc build instructions --- src/doc/manual/user-guide/building.txi | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/doc/manual/user-guide/building.txi b/src/doc/manual/user-guide/building.txi index 90ad8a02f..25d8f211a 100644 --- a/src/doc/manual/user-guide/building.txi +++ b/src/doc/manual/user-guide/building.txi @@ -71,12 +71,13 @@ Top level in: #. You need Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or better to compile ECL, which flavor(Professional, Community, etc) does not matter. -You also need @uref{http://yasm.tortall.net,yasm}, +You also need @uref{http://yasm.tortall.net,yasm} optionally to build gmp, fetch yasm-1.3.0-win64.exe and yasm-1.3.0-win32.exe, -put them in your system PATH directory. +and put them in your system PATH directory. -Open a console window, -and run vcvarsamd64.bat or vcvars32.bat to set up your build environment. +In the Visual Studio's startup menu, +click @uref{https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/developer-command-prompt-for-vs,Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio} +to open the console window. @enumerate @item