From b9283d04cc4e9bcc8f40a2f4fdfd02dde12c2d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergei Vorobev Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:23:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about VC++ in README.md --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 892db2db04..2a81559451 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -347,7 +347,11 @@ On Windows, we also build Full PowerShell for .NET 4.5.1 If you don't have any visual studio installed, you can use [Visual Studio 2015 Community edition][vs]. -* Add `msbuild` to `PATH` / create PowerShell alias to it. +**Troubleshooting note:** you need a **VC++** compiler from it (it's an optional component). +If `cmake` output says that it cannot determine `C` and `CXX` compilers, you ever don't have VS 2015 installed, +or you don't have `C++` component installed. + +* Add `msbuild` to `PATH` or create PowerShell alias to it. ```powershell Set-Alias msbuild C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe