Update installation instructions

Now includes information on how to use `winget` to streamline installation

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6d11184bd..971efac98 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ To build the code you will need Visual Studio 2022 (we use c++20 features), git
 
 * Install Visual Studio 2022
 * Install [git](https://git-scm.com/download/win)
+  * You can also use `winget install git` if you have winget installed
+  * You may want to install the github CLI to manage credentials etc - `winget install github.cli`
 * Install [xmake](https://xmake.io/#/getting_started)
+  * You can also use `winget install xmake` if you have winget installed
 * Install vcpkg (see below)
 
 #### Installing vcpkg
@@ -50,31 +53,37 @@ This is necessary to run pre-commit locally, which is useful in particular to ru
 commit.
 
 * Make sure python3 is installed. Version 3.11 or later should work
+  * You can install using `winget install python3`
 * Run `pip install pre-commit`
 
 ### Building with Visual Studio
 
-We currently require Visual Studio 2022 or later. The following steps need to be run from a Command Prompt window or a Terminal instance
+We currently require a C++ compiler from Visual Studio 2022 or later. The following steps need to be run 
+from a Command Prompt window or a Terminal instance
 
-* clone the `zen` repository if you haven't already. This requires a valid github login and you need to be part of the EpicGames organization
-  * run `git clone https://github.com/EpicGames/zen.git`
+* clone the `zen` repository if you haven't already. This requires a valid github login and you need to 
+  be part of the EpicGames organization
+  * run `git clone https://github.com/EpicGames/zen.git` or `gh repo clone EpicGames/zen` (you may want 
+    to use `gh` to log in to github as well)
 * run `xmake sln` or `xmake project -k vsxmake2022 -a x64 -y` to generate a Visual Studio solution file
 * open the `vsxmake2022\zen.sln` VS solution (`start vsxmake2022\zen.sln`)
   * Note: if you want full connectivity with the http.sys server implementation you currently need to run 
     Visual Studio in ADMIN mode since http.sys requires elevation to be able to listen on a non-local network socket.
     You can start Visual Studio in admin mode by holding CTRL-SHIFT when launching Visual Studio. Alternatively
     you can add an URL reservation (see below)
-  * you can now build and run `zenserver` as usual from Visual Studio
+  * you can now build and run `zenserver` as usual from Visual Studio. Note that the test suite is compiled into 
+    the Debug configuration only at this time, to keep Release lean
   * third-party dependencies will be built the first time via the `vcpkg` integration. This is not as
     fast as it could be (it does not go wide) but should only happen on the first build and will leverage
-    a local build cache.
+    a local build cache
 
 ### Building with xmake
 
-* configure xmake `xmake config -m debug|release -a x64`
-* build zenserver `xmake build zenserver`
+* configure xmake: `xmake config -m debug|release -a x64`
+* build zenserver: `xmake build zenserver`
+  * build all targets at once: `xmake`
 
-Binaries are located in the `build` directory
+Compiled binaries are located in the `build` directory
 
 ## Building on Linux
 
@@ -168,7 +177,7 @@ Note that the command above to set the build variant to debug is optional. Tests
 are only built in debug.The `xmake` flags `-vD` can be useful to diagnose
 `xmake` issues.
 
-### Distribution compatibility
+### Linux distribution compatibility
 
 Builds for Linux have a dependency on a modern version of the C++ library that
 supports Zen's use of C++20 and the GCC-11 toolchain used (assuming the above