Minutes of ESC call: 2017-03-02

Fri Mar 3 14:58:05 UTC 2017

On 03/03/2017 01:01 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 11:41:09AM +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
>>              + community edition IDE can't be used until you register
>>                  + E-mail + Account on MS stuff...
>>                  + only blocks the IDE, not compiler.
>
> Though the UI suggests this (no option to skip) when I closed that small
> window, it continued with other steps and the IDE showed up just fine (I
> didn’t try to use it, though).

At least external/lcms2/ExternalProject_lcms2.mk tries to upgrade some 
vcxproj file, and that is known to cause 'make' to fail without a useful 
error message if VS is not properly registered (after a 30 day trial 
period, IIUC).