New Buildout install of Plone 6 didn't create bin/instance

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I'm following the instructions to install Plone with Buildout (Install Plone with Buildout — Plone Documentation v6).

I've created a new virtual environment and installed Buildout into it. I created a buildout.cfg file as directed my the instructions, bootstrapped Buildout, then ran the buildout command to install Plone. While this downloaded a bunch of eggs, it didn't create the instance command that the instructions direct me to run next.

I'm trying to make this work on Windows, which I understand is not especially well supported. I haven't seen any error messages, however, so I'm at a loss as to what's actually going on.

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Just a quick reply to answer my own question: it turns out it is because I was running on Windows. It's been a couple of days and I can't remember exactly where I saw this, but I believe somewhere in the Buildout recipe there was a conditional statement that simply omitted setting up the instance if it found it was running on Windows.