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    Update README for Meson port and MSVC usage · a4e65c3a
    Nirbheek Chauhan authored
    With the Meson port, we can now build many recipes with MSVC, and we
    will default to doing that on Windows. People can switch to MinGW-only
    by adding 'novisualstudio' to variants in ~/.cerbero/cerbero.cbc
    
    We always needed an MSVC compiler for building the directshow plugins,
    and we need lib.exe from Visual Studio to generate import libraries
    from DLLs for all recipes built with Autotools.
    
    This change documents that correctly and bumps the requirement to
    Visual Studio 2015, which is what we support in GStreamer. VS 2013 may
    work, and support for it can be added if enough people ask for it.
    
    Also fix the documentation about how to install Python 3. The default
    installation path is in `C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32` which
    breaks Autotools and other shell-based builds. Note that Meson does
    not require this.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796641
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