| commit | 468ecdc36d841819642bc86a5e4e36998c07dcee | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Peter Mounce <petermounce@improbable.io> | Thu Nov 24 15:12:14 2016 +0000 |
| committer | Dmitry Lomov <dslomov@google.com> | Thu Nov 24 15:54:43 2016 +0000 |
| tree | bba0fe8806769a53acfa354c37bf0beddb92fb82 | |
| parent | 5dd5744c9c78a52561de77fa1f195f143387822f [diff] |
Improve windows docs around C++ These are the options that a colleague needed to install in their VS 2015 Community Edition install before it was possible to compile C++ with Bazel. I've reflected this in the doc (I thought I remembered an open issue for this, but couldn't find it just now when I looked). (I elected to not change the markdown formatting because of the `<br/>` in play. I think it's possible to get the same hanging indent by indenting the text within a bullet by one indent-width, but I have no way of previewing the rendering to know whether that's true or not.)  (Specifically, in the screenshot, I'm referring to the C++ ones, not any of the others). Closes #2063. -- Reviewed-on: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/2063 MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=140134095
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