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authorHennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>2022-11-14 14:46:02 +0000
committerHennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>2022-11-14 14:46:02 +0000
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downloadbitcoin-f97892d21af9fa1d5c3b07b37e233b0bea0807e7.tar.xz
doc: Mention required workload when building with MSVC
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@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ Visual Studio 2022 is minimum required to build Bitcoin Core.
Solution and project files to build with `msbuild` or Visual Studio can be found in the `build_msvc` directory.
-To build Bitcoin Core from the command-line, it is sufficient to only install the Visual Studio Build Tools component.
+To build Bitcoin Core from the command-line, it is sufficient to only install the [Visual Studio Build Tools](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) component.
+
+The "Desktop development with C++" workload must be installed as well.
Building with Visual Studio is an alternative to the Linux based [cross-compiler build](../doc/build-windows.md).