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Is there such a thing as a “x64 Native Tools PowerShell for VS 2022”?
I’m currently working on contributing to Descent 3. Specifically, I’m working on reviewing a pull request that changes Descent 3’s build instructions. At the moment, Descent 3’s build instructions say:
Open a “x64 Native Tools Command Prompt” and run:
If it gets merged, then the pull request will replace that line with:
Open a "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt" or "x64 Native Tools PowerShell" and run:
Is there such a thing as a “x64 Native Tools PowerShell”? If so, how do you access it?
You need to have Visual Studio 2022 installed in order to build Descent 3 on Windows. When I install Visual Studio 2022 Community, it adds a Start menu shortcut for “x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022”. I’ve never seen a shortcut for “x64 Native Tools PowerShell for VS 2022” before. When I do a Web search for "x64 Native Tools PowerShell", I only get two results. The first result is a blog post that describes how you would create a custom x64 Native Tools PowerShell preset for Windows Terminal. The second result is the build instructions for another GitHub project. Those instructions tell you to open X64 Native Tools Powershell for VS<version>, but they don’t tell you how to get that shortcut.