However, the Build Tools workload by default only installs VS2017. Visual Studio Build Tools currently offers both the VS2017 (14.1) and VS2015 (14.0) compilers. It can appear multiple times on the command line.
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It may be possible to replace some of the install command line options with /L - Specifies a location for the log file./S - Quiet mode with no display and no user interaction./NoRestart - Do not restart during or after installation.BuildTools_Full.exe /NoRestart /S /L "$BuildToolsInstallerPath\build-tools-log.txt" VS2015 build tools install script doesn't modify the install \VisualCppBuildTools_Full.exe /NoRestart /S /L "C:\vs_build_tools\windows-build-tools_vs2015\build-tools-log\vs2015-build-tools.txt" /NoRefresh /NoWeb cd /d C:\vs_build_tools\windows-build-tools_vs2015\offline\ More likely than not, that’s probably what you’ll be doing most of the time. Now let’s go a little further and see what it looks like to download and install an existing npm project, rather than starting one from scratch.
( C:\vs_build_tools\windows-build-tools_vs2015\offline\ in the above example)Īnd run the installer exe with the /NoRefresh and /NoWeb switches. We’ve gotten a good overview of how npm works and how to use it to install packages and run commands at this point. cd /d C:\vs_build_tools\windows-build-tools_vs2015\.Open cmd prompt and run installer in offline-installer-builder mode (as per ).