Re: Visual Studio install

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 11 October 2017 at 14:31, Mike Hammond <MCTMike () abacustech info> wrote:

> Hi - I'm working through installing the Wireshark development platform on
> my laptop for the first time.  Things seem to have gone smoothly until the
> installation of Visual Studio 2015 Community edition.  It seems to have
> installed without errors (I'm using the chocolatey install technique via
> PowerShell).  But when I look for the Native Tools Command Prompt named in
> section 2.2.9, I don't see it.  The shortcuts I see in the Start Menu (I'm
> on Windows 10) seem to be launching 32-bit environments.  In fact, the
> whole of VS2015 seems to be installed in the Program Files(x86) directory.
> Did I make a mistake in the installation?  I'd assume I'd be getting a
> 64-bit VS2015.
VS does get installed in the (x86) directory.

In the Start Menu, you should see a Visual Studio 2015 entry with a
"folder" icon, expand that and you should see a "VS2015 x64 Native Tools
Command Prompt" entry with a "Cmd Prompt" icon.  That's the item you need.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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