From bac253ffc07c8aa26585576ca66c4a5d825bc4bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eriawan Kusumawardhono Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:24:41 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add note for Visual Studio SDK as prerequisite for building Visual F# IDE tool --- DEVGUIDE.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/DEVGUIDE.md b/DEVGUIDE.md index cb88da6805..f715e1d8fb 100644 --- a/DEVGUIDE.md +++ b/DEVGUIDE.md @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ There are various qualifiers: build.cmd test-fsharpqa -- build, run tests\fsharpqa suite build.cmd test-vs -- build, run Visual F# IDE Tools unit tests +**Notes** +To build and test Visual F# IDE Tools, you must install Visual Studio SDK (also called _Visual Studio Extensibility SDK_ on the Visual Studio installer) before building Visual F# IDE Tools. +Please ensure that the Visual Studio SDK version is matched with your current Visual Studio to ensure successful builds. For example: Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 requires Visual Studio 2015 SDK Update 1. +Beginning with Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2015 SDK is not available for separate download. Any installation of Visual Studio 2015 and its updates provides Visual Studio SDK as part of the installation of Visual Studio 2015 as feature installation. + Combinations are also allowed: build.cmd debug,compiler,notests -- build the debug compiler and run smoke tests