[docs] Add a note that the Visual Studio C++ tools are required

Watching new contributors trying to build LLVM on Windows, one of the
very common failure modes was getting a version of Visual Studio
that did not have a C++ compiler for CMake to put up. Trying to create
a C++ project in Visual Studio will cause Visual Studio to go and
download the C++ tools.

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Keno Fischer 2016-02-07 19:36:54 +00:00
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@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ Here's the short story for getting up and running quickly with LLVM:
using LLVM. Another important option is ``LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD``,
which controls the LLVM target architectures that are included on the
build.
* If CMake complains that it cannot find the compiler, make sure that
you have the Visual Studio C++ Tools installed, not just Visual Studio
itself (trying to create a C++ project in Visual Studio will generally
download the C++ tools if they haven't already been).
* See the :doc:`LLVM CMake guide <CMake>` for detailed information about
how to configure the LLVM build.
* CMake generates project files for all build types. To select a specific