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Mention MSVC requirements in FAQ doc #10401

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linquize opened this issue Mar 12, 2020 · 1 comment
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Mention MSVC requirements in FAQ doc #10401

linquize opened this issue Mar 12, 2020 · 1 comment
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Let's mention some MSVC requirements in FAQ doc

  • Currently on Windows, MSVC must be installed in order to build vcpkg.exe
  • The necessary Visual Studio C++ features to select
  • Visual Studio English language pack, recently there are issues reported regarding this
@linquize linquize added the category:vcpkg-feature The issue is a new capability of the tool that doesn’t already exist and we haven’t committed label Mar 12, 2020
@NancyLi1013 NancyLi1013 added category:documentation To resolve the issue, documentation will need to be updated and removed category:vcpkg-feature The issue is a new capability of the tool that doesn’t already exist and we haven’t committed labels Mar 13, 2020
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This should not be a problem now, currently we download the vcpkg.exe instead.
For English language pack, it has been mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg#quick-start-windows.

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