Update/Add VS Build Tools 2017 to windows-2019

[hrueger]

Tool information

• Tool name: Visual Studio Build Tools 2017
• Tool license: ???
• Add or update? Add
• Desired version: 2017
• Approximate size:
• If this is an add request:
  • Brief description of tool: It's an older version of VS Build Tools
  • URL for tool's homepage: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/2017-redistribution-vs#vs2017-download

Area for Triage:
Windows / C/C++

Question, Bug, or Feature?:
Feature

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11.0
• Windows Server 2016 R2
• Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
As far as I know, no.

Tool installation time in runtime
I don't know, probably as long as VS 2019 does.

Are you willing to submit a PR?
If there's docs on how to do this, sure.

This issue is already posted in #35 and I commented there (#35 (comment)), however, I can't reopen this issue.

My needs are the following:
I'm trying to build https://github.com/stream-labs/obs-studio-node with a custom version of https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio . obs-studio-node requires Visual Studio 2015 or 2017, so I went with the windows-2016 actions environment. However, the installed version of the Windows 10 SDK is 10.0.14393.0. OBS on the other hand requires Windows 10 SDK 10.0.19041.0 or newer.
I tried installing another version of the Windows 10 SDK with choco install windows-sdk-10-version-2004-all but although the installation process finishes successfully, OBS still only detects the old Windows 10 SDK.

So I want to move to the windows-2019 environment but Visual Studio 2017 is not available there.

Any idea?

[hrueger]

Never mind, although the documentation of obs-studio-node states that it can't be built with Visual Studio 2019, it seems to work just fine.

[seladb]

Now that windows-2016 is being deprecated, are there plans to add VS 2017 to the newer Windows images?

[Jaifroid]

I need to build an appxbundle from jsproj with VS 2017 build tools (VS 2019 doesn't support jsproj solution types).

windows-2016 is the only version that has VS 2017, but windows-2016 is about to be removed. Is there a way to install it on windows-2019, or can it be built-in as an option that can be enabled instead of 2019 or 2022 in one of the later windows images, please?