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diff --git a/doc/intro.cli b/doc/intro.cli index e672f4d..41852a5 100644 --- a/doc/intro.cli +++ b/doc/intro.cli @@ -368,12 +368,7 @@ $ bdep init -C @clang cc config.cxx=clang++ Things will also look pretty similar if you are on Windows instead of a UNIX-like operating system. For example, to initialize our project on Windows -with Visual Studio, start the Visual Studio development command prompt and -then run: - -\N|Currently we have to run \c{build2} tools from a suitable Visual Studio -development command prompt. This requirement will likely be removed in the -future.| +with Visual Studio, start a command prompt and then run: \ > bdep init -C ..\hello-debug @debug cc ^ @@ -386,6 +381,20 @@ future.| config.cc.coptions=/O2 \ +\N|For Visual Studio, \c{build2} by default will use the latest available +version and build for the \c{x86_64} target (\c{x64} in the Microsoft's +terminology). You can, however, override these defaults by either running +from a suitable Visual Studio development command prompt or by specifying +an absolute path to \c{cl.exe} that you wish to use. For example: + +\ +> bdep init -C ..\hello-debug-32 @debug-32 cc ^ + \"config.cxx=...\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\bin\Hostx64\x86\cl.exe\" + ... +\ + +| + \N|Besides the \c{coptions} (compile options) and \c{loptions} (link options), other commonly used \c{cc} module configuration variables are \c{poptions} (preprocess options) and \c{libs} (extra libraries to link). Here is the @@ -1841,8 +1850,7 @@ created new configuration in /tmp/tools/ $ cd tools \ -The same step on Windows using Visual Studio would look like this (again, -remember to run this from the Visual Studio development command prompt): +The same step on Windows using Visual Studio would look like this: \ $ bpkg create -d tools cc ^ |