Getting correct Visual Studio 2022 for OCaml 5.3+

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Getting correct Visual Studio 2022 for OCaml 5.3+ #7

Open dra27 opened 2 months ago

dra27 commented 2 months ago

The MSVC port of OCaml will be restored in OCaml 5.3, but it requires Visual Studio 2022 or later. The error messages at present are clear about the problem (old Visual Studio) but not so clear about the fixes.

Cross-referencing:

Discuss thread on the problem
https://github.com/metastack/msvs-tools/issues/19
https://github.com/metastack/msvs-tools/issues/20
https://github.com/metastack/msvs-tools/issues/21

jonahbeckford commented 2 months ago

https://github.com/diskuv/dkml-runtime-distribution/blob/main/src/windows/Machine/Machine.psm1 has logic to detect and suggest what needs to be installed. (I read it from bottom to top)