From 4497d0f247d1772c75949668d9c7351ae54565ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Martin <martine@danga.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:50:36 -0700
Subject: add HACKING note on cl.exe-via-wine

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 HACKING.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HACKING.md b/HACKING.md
index 885d2d7..11edf74 100644
--- a/HACKING.md
+++ b/HACKING.md
@@ -172,3 +172,9 @@ Then run:
 * 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
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