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Windows Setup for ESP needs to be more detailed

Open graciexia8 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

The Readme with the installation information for Visual C++ Build Tools is broken.

I used this link to install the current build tools: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools&rel=15

which links to the Visual C++ Build Tools 2017 Version, from there you will need to add the following options when installing (which is not mentioned in the installation read me) because they are NOT selected by default.

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Otherwise, when you attempt to run any of the ESP Example files, you will encounter the following error described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48541801/microsoft-visual-c-14-0-is-required-get-it-with-microsoft-visual-c-build-t

In addition to that, you will also encounter this issue when running on the console: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14372706/visual-studio-cant-build-due-to-rc-exe

Please follow the above link's solution to find the rc.exe files and rcdll.dll files and move them into the following directory:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

that was what got me over all the errors and allowed the examples to start running.

graciexia8 avatar Sep 12 '21 23:09 graciexia8