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Update Windows compiler instructions for MSVC.

Subhomoy Haldar 2023-02-16 10:56:56 +00:00
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Installing-a-C-compiler-on-Windows.md

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### Visual Studio ### Visual Studio
Visual Studio takes up a lot more space (~10GB), but may be useful if you're planning on doing C interop with the Windows SDK / WinAPI. Visual Studio takes up a lot more space (typically [20GB-50GB](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/system-requirements#hardware)), but may be useful if you're planning on doing C interop with the Windows SDK / WinAPI.
[Download](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/) and install Visual Studio 2019. The community edition will suffice. In the installer select `Visual Studio core editor`, `Desktop development with C++`, and `Windows 10 SDK`. [Download](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/) and install the latest Visual Studio. The community edition will suffice. In the installer select `Visual Studio core editor`, `Desktop development with C++`, and `Windows 11 SDK`. Change your selection accordingly if you have Windows 10.
It is also recommended to use either the Visual Studio Development Command Prompt (20XX) or Visual Studio Development PowerShell (20XX) which adds `cl.exe` and other relevant MSVC tools to path. See the [reference](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/command-prompt-powershell) for more information.
When you build V from source, use `make.bat -msvc` to specify that you want to build V using Visual Studio, otherwise it defaults to TCC (which is good for fast compilation). For your own projects, use `v -cc msvc ...`, optionally with `-prod` to make optimised executables with MSVC.