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Add winget instructions for dev mode Windows installation
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ethanbb authored Sep 18, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -89,11 +89,17 @@ The Windows installation process differs quite a bit from installation
on Linux or MacOSX. If you can work on Linux, it will be easier. Everything
below should be from a Conda-prompt rather than from Powershell or any other shell.

- Install Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019, which you can download
from (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/). Check the
“Build Tools” box, and in the detailed view on the right check the “C/C++ CLI
Tools” component too. The specifics of this occasionally change as Microsoft
changes its products and website; you may need to go off-script.
- Install Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019.

- If you are on Windows 10 version 1709 or later
or Windows 11, you can use ``winget``. Run in a command prompt:

``winget install --id=Microsoft.VisualStudio.2019.BuildTools -e``
- Otherwise, you can install it from
from (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/). Check the
“Build Tools” box, and in the detailed view on the right check the “C/C++ CLI
Tools” component too. The specifics of this occasionally change as Microsoft
changes its products and website; you may need to go off-script.
- Remove any associations you may have made between .py files and an existing python
interpreter or editor
- If you have less than 64GB of RAM, increase the maximum size of your pagefile to 64G or more
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