V: Message is not clear when neither mingw64 nor msvc installed on windows

[SleepyRoy]

V version:
0.1.24

OS:
win10 1909

What did you do?
download prebuilt package from vlang.io, set the PATH, open cmd, simply type "v" and enter.

What did you expect to see?
some introduction of v commands?

What did you see instead?
"print_backtrace_skipping_top_frames is not implemented on this platform for now ..."

[vitalyster]

You should have gcc in PATH too, or have MSVC installed

[SleepyRoy]

@vitalyster Thanks. Previously I had mingw installed. Changing it to mingw64 fixes this problem.
But should V give a clear "please install ming64 or MSVC first" message in such cases?

[medvednikov]

Yes it should it.

I thought it already did. Will fix.

[SleepyRoy]

Update:
Just tried typing v on win10 with prebuilt 0.1.27 but no MSVC or mingw64.

cannot compile VPATH\vrepl.v:
builder error: Cannot find MSVC on this OS

v hello_world.v gave similar

builder error: Cannot find MSVC on this OS

So basically solved, although I think Cannot find MSVC or mingw64 is better.

[JalonSolov]

Current V for windows will download and use TCC if it can't find either MSVC or GCC, so this should be a non-issue altogether. If once of those compilers is installed after V is up & running, it will start to use that instead of TCC.