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Installing Visual Studio Build Tools for other (all) users?

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#48 opened on Feb 1, 2017

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First of all, thanks a ton for creating Windows Build Tools!

Now, on to my problem: I installed Windows Build Tools in a default location, but would like to allow other users of the same computer to be able to run npm install to set up my project.

First they had problems with finding Python, but that was easily fixed by adding C:\Users\<my_username>\.windows-build-tools\python27 to their respective PATH's.

Then, a wild "MSBUILD : error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component VCBuild.exe." appeared. I thought maybe adding C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin (is this the correct location?) to PATH would help, but it didn't.

Do you have any ideas how to fix that? Am I using the correct path to the MS build tools?

OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Node: 6.9.2 NPM: 3.10.9

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Investigate the installation script to understand how it sets paths and environment variables. Look into installing the build tools for all users by modifying the script to use system wide environment variables (e.g., via registry or system PATH) and ensure MSBuild is accessible globally.
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