Commit 97367b77 authored by Bruce Dawson's avatar Bruce Dawson Committed by Commit Bot

Improve Windows build instructions

This change removes a stray reference to VS 2015, clarifies when VS
2017 became required, and clarifies which VS 2017 components must be
installed.

Bug: 699375
Change-Id: Ia06240a4581afb784a25330170c61ce3f124cf17
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/724284
Commit-Queue: Bruce Dawson <brucedawson@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVictor Costan <pwnall@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#509631}
parent fa58328c
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recommended.
* At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32
will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB.
* Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, see below (no other version is supported).
* An appropriate version of Visual Studio, as described below.
* Windows 7 or newer.
## Setting up Windows
### Visual Studio
As of September, 2017 Chromium requires Visual Studio 2017 update 3.2 with the
15063 (Creators Update) Windows SDK or later to build. Visual Studio Community
Edition should work if its license is appropriate for you. You must install the
VC++ toolchain and MFC. This can be done from the command line like this:
As of September, 2017 (R503915) Chromium requires Visual Studio 2017 update 3.2
with the 15063 (Creators Update) Windows SDK or later to build. Visual Studio
Community Edition should work if its license is appropriate for you. You must
install the "Desktop development with C++" component and the "MFC and ATL
support" sub-component. This can be done from the command line by passing these
arguments to the Visual Studio installer that you download:
```shell
vs_professional.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop
--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATLMFC --includeRecommended
```
You must have the Windows 10 SDK installed, version 10.0.15063 or later.
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