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felixrieseberg / windows-build-tools

:package: Install C++ Build Tools for Windows using npm
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Where are the build tools from Visual Studio installed? #238

Open leafac opened 3 years ago

leafac commented 3 years ago

First of all, thanks for this project. I’m just getting into Node.js development in Windows and using windows-build-tools everything just worked 🙌

There’s one thing I don’t get, though: Where are the build tools from Visual Studio installed? I know that Python is installed under %USERPROFILE%\.windows-build-tools, and I can run the python executable from cmd.exe/PowerShell just fine. The same isn’t true of the build tools from Visual Studio, for example, cl. Where are they?