Merge topic 'tutorial-step1'

7d3f4e12d2 Tutorial: Clarify instructions for multi-config generators in Step 1

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !8734

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Help/guide/tutorial/A Basic Starting Point.rst b/Help/guide/tutorial/A Basic Starting Point.rst
index 37b0668..2325e9e 100644
--- a/Help/guide/tutorial/A Basic Starting Point.rst
+++ b/Help/guide/tutorial/A Basic Starting Point.rst
@@ -102,7 +102,14 @@ Then call that build system to actually compile/link the project:
 
   cmake --build .
 
-Finally, try to use the newly built ``Tutorial`` with these commands:
+For multi-config generators (e.g. Visual Studio), first navigate to the
+appropriate subdirectory, for example:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  cd Debug
+
+Finally, try to use the newly built ``Tutorial``:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
@@ -110,6 +117,11 @@ Finally, try to use the newly built ``Tutorial`` with these commands:
   Tutorial 10
   Tutorial
 
+
+**Note:** Depending on the shell, the correct syntax may be ``Tutorial``,
+``./Tutorial`` or ``.\Tutorial``. For simplicity, the exercises will use
+``Tutorial`` throughout.
+
 Solution
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