doc

documentation/building.rst

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ Prepare the PVXS source tree: ::
     EPICS_BASE=\$(TOP)/../epics-base
     EOF
 
+Build Base: ::
+
+    make -C epics-base
+
 Install or build libevent >=2.0
 
 On RHEL7 and later. ::
@@ -34,9 +38,8 @@ For additional archs: eg. ::
 
     make -C pvxs/bundle libevent.linux-x86_64-debug
 
-Build Base and PVXS: ::
+Build PVXS: ::
 
-    make -C epics-base
     make -C pvxs
 
 It is recommended to run automatic unittests when building a new (to you) version

documentation/index.rst

@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ CLI utilities acting as PVAccess protocol client and/or server.
 
 Dependencies
 
-* A C++11 compliant compiler (eg. GCC >= 4.8)
+* A C++11 compliant compiler like GCC >= 4.8 or Visual Studio 2015 (12.0)
 * `EPICS Base <https://epics-controls.org/resources-and-support/base/>`_ >=3.15.1
 * `libevent <http://libevent.org/>`_ >=2.0.1
-* (optional) `CMake <https://cmake.org/>`_ >=3.1, only when building bundled libevent
+* (optional) `CMake <https://cmake.org/>`_ >=3.1, only needed when building bundled libevent
 
 Status
 
-This module is considered feature complete, but not yet making releases.
+This module is considered feature complete, but is not yet making releases.
 
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