Update documentation for C++ compiler prefs #1323
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See #1322
I expected to be able to set the actual compiler binary with this preferences (which is not the case). So I added a sentence on how to set a specific compiler binary (using environment variable
CXX
). But if you think this doesn't belong here, feel free to remove it again.And I never used Windows makefiles so I couldn't tell from the win_makefile template if there was a Windows equivalent?