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diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli index be39b1f..d525494 100644 --- a/doc/manual.cli +++ b/doc/manual.cli @@ -206,10 +206,11 @@ $ b config.cxx=clang++ 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} that you wish to use. For example: +absolute path to \c{cl} that you wish to use. For example (notice the use +of inner quotes): \ -> b \"config.cxx=...\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\bin\Hostx64\x86\cl\" +> b \"config.cxx='...\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\bin\Hostx64\x86\cl'\" \ See \l{#cc-msvc MSVC Compiler Toolchain} for details.| @@ -5265,11 +5266,16 @@ SDK and use that in the 64-bit mode. Finally, if the compiler is specified as an absolute path to \c{cl}, then the \c{cc} module will attempt to locate the corresponding Visual Studio installation as well as the latest Platform SDK and use that in the mode -corresponding to the specified \c{cl} executable. +corresponding to the specified \c{cl} executable. Note that to specify an +absolute path to \c{cl} (which most likely contains spaces) we have to +use two levels of quoting: -Note that the latter two methods are only available for Visual Studio 15 (2017) -and later and for earlier versions the development command prompt must be -used. +\ +> b \"config.cxx='...\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\bin\Hostx64\x86\cl'\" +\ + +\N|The latter two methods are only available for Visual Studio 15 (2017) and +later and for earlier versions the development command prompt must be used.| The default MSVC runtime selected by the \c{cc} module is multi-threaded shared (the \c{/MD} \c{cl} option). An alternative runtime can be selected |