From acb4271833ca97763d54bba664b79aa7e2a388ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonas Hermsmeier Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:11:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc(CONTRIBUTING): Add note about msvs_version on Windows (#1794) This adds a small note about setting the `msvs_version` in the npm config on Windows. Change-Type: patch --- docs/CONTRIBUTING.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md index 5243cddb..3567dee1 100644 --- a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ You might need to run this with `sudo` or administrator permissions. C++ 2015` (see http://stackoverflow.com/a/31955339) - [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org) +You might need to `npm config set msvs_version 2015` for node-gyp to correctly detect +the version of Visual Studio you're using (in this example VS2015). + The following MinGW packages are required: - `msys-make`