-MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2013
-(or later) so `rustc` can use its linker. Make sure to check the “C++ tools”
-option.
+MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2017
+(or later) so `rustc` can use its linker. The simplest way is to get the
+[Visual Studio Build Tools] and check the “C++ build tools” workload.
+
+[Visual Studio Build Tools]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019
+
+(If you're installing cmake yourself, be careful that “C++ CMake tools for
+Windows” doesn't get included under “Individual components”.)