About two slightly different Geant4 installations

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Hello, I have seen two Geant4 installation tutorials that are slightly different from each other. The part of the Geant4 installation I am referring to is when Visual Studio 2022 is used. Below I list the Geant4 installation steps from each of the tutorials: In one tutorial the steps are:
1.- Open Visual Studio 2022
2.- Open the Geant4.sln file
3.- At the top of the Visual Studio options menu, select Release
4.- In the Solution Explorer, select INSTALL
5.- Right click on INSTALL and select Build
6.- Wait an hour or more
On the other hand, in another Geant4 installation tutorial the steps are:
1.- Open Visual Studio 2022
2.- Open the Geant4.sln file
3.- At the top of the Visual Studio options menu select Release
4.- In the Solution Explorer, select ALL BUILD
5.- Right click on ALL BUILD and select Build
6.- After waiting several minutes, select INSTALL
7.- Right click on INSTALL and select Build
It should be added that I have installed Geant4 following the first series of steps that I have described. Can I continue working with Geant4 in this way or do I have to reinstall Geant4 following the second series of steps that I have described?

_Geant4 Version:_11.2.1
_Operating System:_Windows 10
_Compiler/Version:_Visual Studio 2022
_CMake Version:_3.29.0-rc2

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They should be identical from the perspective of installing Geant4. In the first, the INSTALL step will actually perform the ALL BUILD/Build step as it depends on this happening first. So no, you don’t need to reinstall.

See also the official install guide for Windows.

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Thank you for solving my doubt Doctor

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