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authorEvan Martin <martine@danga.com>2013-04-11 20:50:36 (GMT)
committerEvan Martin <martine@danga.com>2013-04-11 20:50:36 (GMT)
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* Build `ninja.exe` using a Linux ninja binary: `/path/to/linux/ninja`
* Run: `./ninja.exe` (implicitly runs through wine(!))
+### Using Microsoft compilers on Linux (extremely flaky)
+
+The trick is to install just the compilers, and not all of Visual Studio,
+by following [these instructions][win7sdk].
+
+[win7sdk]: http://www.kegel.com/wine/cl-howto-win7sdk.html