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Merge pull request #258 from rgwood/windows-install
Update Windows build-from-source requirements
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* Linux: GCC or Clang
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* macOS: Clang (install Xcode)
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* Windows: [Visual Studio Community Edition](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/)
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For Windows, when you install Visual Studio Community Edition, make sure to install the "C++ build tools" as what we need is `link.exe` which is provided as part of that optional install. With that, we're ready to move to the next step.
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* Windows: MSVC (install [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/) or the [Visual Studio Build Tools](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2022))
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* Make sure to install the "Desktop development with C++" workload
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* Any Visual Studio edition will work (Community is free)
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### Installing Rust
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