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Building with Visual Studio in MSys2: wrong version of link

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Description

I use a visual studio command prompt, instead of vcvarsall.bat to set up the environment .
Following the other instructions under the heading Building with Visual Studio in MSys2 on
https://coin-or.github.io/user_introduction.html#building-with-visual-studio-in-msys2
I get the following result (which shows the wrong version of link)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community>set PATH=C:\msys64\usr\bin;%PATH%
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community>bash
Community>which link
/usr/bin/link
Community>

If I do the following, I get the correct version of link:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community>set PATH=%PATH%;C:\msys64\usr\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community>bash
Community>which link
/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30133/bin/HostX86/x86/link
Community>

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Research direction

Start at the “Building with Visual Studio in MSys2” section linked in user_introduction.html and reproduce the two PATH setups shown in the issue. Update the instructions so the documented command order selects the Visual Studio link executable, then verify that `which link` resolves to the Visual Studio path shown in the report.

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Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
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