Update INSTALL.md for windows compilation such that a misleading arch… #4239
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…itecture option is avoided when calling the developer command prompt As it exists today, the provided `call "...VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=x64` command will output the developer command prompt at startup then close itself after a few seconds. What's going on, is the command prompt is silently failing, because it doesn't recognize the "x64" value for the -arch argument. This change makes the example `call` have a generic value for target architecutre, and links to the documentation where the valid values can be reviewed.
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Hi @dev-nt90, I think most user will just copy and paste the command line example without even touching the What I cannot believe is why Microsoft removed the x64 CLI access to MSVC from the start menu and it defaulted to x86 (the least used arch). |
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@dacap That's fair. If we're concerned with the most common path, then what I think makes most sense is setting the arch value to "amd64", as that's what most people will be using, while leaving a reference to the target arch documentation for the more exotic cases. |
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…itecture option is avoided when calling the developer command prompt
As it exists today, the provided
call "...VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=x64command will output the developer command prompt at startup then close itself after a few seconds. What's going on, is the command prompt is silently failing, because it doesn't recognize the "x64" value for the -arch argument.This change makes the example
callhave a generic value for target architecutre, and links to the documentation where the valid values can be reviewed.I agree that my contributions are licensed under the Individual Contributor License Agreement V4.0 ("CLA") as stated in https://github.com/igarastudio/cla/blob/main/cla.md
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