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Update Building & Installing for windows to include VS build tools #975

Closed chinwobble closed 4 years ago

chinwobble commented 4 years ago

In order to get started on Revery and run esy build on windows you must have Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools or one of the IDE variants.

The documentation should indicate this by: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery/wiki/Building-&-Installing

I suggest adding this to the above documentation:

Revery depends on esy-skia which requires `Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 VC Tools` . It can be installed through chocolatey by running:

choco install visualstudio2017buildtools visualstudio2017-workload-vctools -y
CrossR commented 4 years ago

I believe we can just copy what we do in Oni2 and recommend people install the windows-build-tools package from NPM, which includes both the build tools and Python.

https://onivim.github.io/docs/for-developers/building#prerequisites

EDIT: I've added a comment about installing via NPM or Chocolatey. Assuming its okay, we can close this.