Using Windows SDK only on windows for automatic buidling?

[be5invis]

Visual studio is large.

[TooTallNate]

@piscisaureus wants this too.

Basically node-gyp depends on the msbuild.exe command that comes with Visual Studio to build the .sln file generated from gyp. So my question is does the Windows SDK come with msbuild.exe or some other equivalent "build my solution" command?

[be5invis]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2567018/installing-msbuild-4-0-without-visual-studio-2010

Comfirmed, SDK DOES have msbuild. It is possible.

[TooTallNate]

Well then unless msbuild.exe resides in a different location with just the SDK (entirely possible) then this should already work fine! I'll try to test it out when I get a chance.

[TooTallNate]

With just the Windows 7 SDK installed on a Win 7 64-bit machine, I'm getting this when trying to run msbuild:

So it looks like at least .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit needs to be installed alongside the newer SDK, so that vcbuild.exe gets installed.

[be5invis]

I think .NET SDK is also required. Use the Windows SDK 7.1 (incl. .NET).

[TooTallNate]

@be5invis With just the Windows SDK 7.1 installed (and .NET 4.0), I get the error shown above.

Even after installing the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, like it says in the error message, I pretty much get the same thing. I'm not exactly sure what else needs to be installed other than Visual Studio 2010 Express :\

[TooTallNate]

I wasn't able to figure this out. @be5invis were you?

I ended up just downloading Visual Studio 2010 Express alongside the Windows 7 64-bit SDK. Together they can produce 64-bit node native modules.

[TooTallNate]

I'm just gonna recommend that people install the 64-bit SDK alongside Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express. Closing...