Encourage use of Windows path GUI #538
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…idea to recommend this route
…shots to illustrate windows GUI route
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| - Ensure that you have at least Python 3.5 and Visual Studio 2015 installed (extensions for earlier versions of Python cannot be built using any versions of Visual Studio new enough to support C++11). If you are using Visual Studio 2019, you need at least Python 3.7.5. These instructions assume that the Anaconda platform was used to install Python, but it _should_ be possible to install PyGeNN using suitable versions of Python installed in different way (please let us know if you suceed in doing so!) | |||
| - Ensure that you have at least Python 3.5 and Visual Studio 2015 installed (extensions for earlier versions of Python cannot be built using any versions of Visual Studio new enough to compile GeNN). If you are using Visual Studio 2019, you need at least Python 3.7.5. These instructions assume that the Anaconda platform was used to install Python, but it _should_ be possible to install PyGeNN using suitable versions of Python installed in different way (please let us know if you succeed in doing so!) | |||
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Based on many users falling into this trap, I replaced suggestions to use
setxwith instructions to use the Windows environment editing GUI (which I at least prefer).While I was at it, I also:
This stuff is also explained in the readmes but, as discussed in #537, these have to be updated separately so I will only do that when we're all happy with the changes.