#### MSVC
[windows-msvc]: #windows-msvc
-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”.)
With these dependencies installed, you can build the compiler in a `cmd.exe`
shell with:
by manually calling the appropriate vcvars file before running the bootstrap.
```batch
-> CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat"
+> CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
> python x.py build
```