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doc: clarify the prerequisites for building with VS2017 #16903

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@seishun seishun commented Nov 9, 2017

  • "Edition" is ambiguous. For example, Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017
    is listed under "Visual Studio 2017", but Build Tools for Visual
    Studio 2017 is listed under "Other Tools and Frameworks".
  • The listed required components are insufficient. VS2017 also needs
    "Visual Studio C++ core features", and Build Tools also needs
    "Visual C++ Build Tools core features".
  • Installing the workload with the default optional components takes up
    only about 1GB more space than the minimal set of components, but
    saves scrolling through the long list of individual components.
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seishun commented Nov 10, 2017

@nodejs/platform-windows I'm going to land this in 24 hours if there are no objections.

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The list of components that was here was exactly what was needed when those lines landed, anything else was pulled as dependencies. The installer changed, so referring to workloads instead makes more sense. Having a minimal list would be very useful for some users, but since it may change over time it's better to have this.

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FYI this matches this screenshot of the installer I took back in September:

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refack commented Nov 10, 2017

We should find a way to follow MSVS installer updates. ATM I only track vswhere changes...

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doc: clarify the prerequisites for building with VS2017
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* "Edition" is ambiguous. For example, Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017
  is listed under "Visual Studio 2017", but Build Tools for Visual
  Studio 2017 is listed under "Other Tools and Frameworks".
* The listed required components are insufficient. VS2017 also needs
  "Visual Studio C++ core features", and Build Tools also needs
  "Visual C++ Build Tools core features".
* Installing the workload with the default optional components takes up
  only about 1GB more space than the minimal set of components, but
  saves scrolling through the long list of individual components.

PR-URL: #16903
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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seishun commented Nov 11, 2017

Landed in ff21851.

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@seishun @refack Funny, I ran into the problem of not having all needed components on Windows yesterday & just saw this PR right now – Thank you a lot for this! ❤️

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refack commented Nov 11, 2017

@addaleax do you remember what was missing? Did you base your setup on the old instructions?
Anyway there's a plan to supply some scripts to automate dev setup on Windows.

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@refack Uh… This is partly from memory, but it was something like msbuild complaining about C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/Common7/IDE/VC/VCTargets/Microsoft.Cpp.props missing or so? It definitely was some C++-specific file in that folder that wasn’t part of the minimal list of required components

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doc: clarify the prerequisites for building with VS2017
74f3372 
* "Edition" is ambiguous. For example, Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017
  is listed under "Visual Studio 2017", but Build Tools for Visual
  Studio 2017 is listed under "Other Tools and Frameworks".
* The listed required components are insufficient. VS2017 also needs
  "Visual Studio C++ core features", and Build Tools also needs
  "Visual C++ Build Tools core features".
* Installing the workload with the default optional components takes up
  only about 1GB more space than the minimal set of components, but
  saves scrolling through the long list of individual components.

PR-URL: #16903
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 17, 2017
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doc: clarify the prerequisites for building with VS2017
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* "Edition" is ambiguous. For example, Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017
  is listed under "Visual Studio 2017", but Build Tools for Visual
  Studio 2017 is listed under "Other Tools and Frameworks".
* The listed required components are insufficient. VS2017 also needs
  "Visual Studio C++ core features", and Build Tools also needs
  "Visual C++ Build Tools core features".
* Installing the workload with the default optional components takes up
  only about 1GB more space than the minimal set of components, but
  saves scrolling through the long list of individual components.

PR-URL: #16903
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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Landed on 8.x but not 6.x

If I recall we don't support VS2017 on 6.x, please correct me if mistaken

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seishun commented Nov 17, 2017

@MylesBorins correct.

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