From 6516cd4a195ba0a84b01a127a862230509481599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gareth Dwyer Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:28:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add Windows Compiler installation instructions The ReadMe currently says that Windows Spacy Users should install a full Visual Studio version in order to compile Spacy. Some might prefer to only install the compiler provided by Microsoft (or MinGW if this is confirmed to work?). I added a link to the Wiki that points to the various Microsoft downloads, as these are quite difficult to find otherwise. --- README.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 389b4ea14..8a97d6de2 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ Install a version of Visual Studio Express or higher that matches the version that was used to compile your Python interpreter. For official distributions these are VS 2008 (Python 2.7), VS 2010 (Python 3.4) and VS 2015 (Python 3.5). +If you don't want to install the entire Visual Studio, you can install a +stand-alone compiler. Make sure that you install the correct version for +your version of Python. See https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers for +links to download these. + Run tests =========