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Poperton
Poperton

Reputation: 1776

How to install Visual Studio Build Tools unattended?

I'm trying to install Visual Studio Build Tools unattended, in PowerShell. I followed https://silentinstallhq.com/visual-studio-build-tools-2022-silent-install-how-to-guide/ and came up with this script:

Write-Host "Installing visual studio build tools..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

$exePath = "$env:TEMP\vs.exe"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe -UseBasicParsing -OutFile $exePath

Write-Host "layout..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

Start-Process $exePath -ArgumentList "--layout .\vs_BuildTools" -Wait

cd vs_BuildTools

Write-Host "actual installation..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

Start-Process vs_setup.exe -ArgumentList "--installPath $env:USERPROFILE\vs_BuildTools2022 --nocache --wait --noUpdateInstaller --noWeb --allWorkloads --includeRecommended --includeOptional --quiet --norestart" -Wait

however it keeps stuck on layout... for hours. My guesses are that it either is asking for permission or some dialog opens. Is there a way to print what's happening?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4279

Answers (2)

Poperton
Poperton

Reputation: 1776

# Visual Studio build tools
Write-Host "Installing visual studio build tools..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

cd $env:USERPROFILE

$exePath = "$env:TEMP\vs.exe"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe -UseBasicParsing -OutFile $exePath

Write-Host "layout..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

Start-Process $exePath -ArgumentList "--layout .\vs_BuildTools --quiet" -Wait
cd vs_BuildTools

Write-Host "actual installation..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

Start-Process vs_setup.exe -ArgumentList "--installPath $env:USERPROFILE\vs_BuildTools2022 --nocache --wait --noUpdateInstaller --noWeb --allWorkloads --includeRecommended --includeOptional --quiet --norestart" -Wait

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', "$([Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', 'Machine'));$env:USERPROFILE\vs_BuildTools2022", 'Machine')

Upvotes: 1

stackprotector
stackprotector

Reputation: 13588

Before trying to automate the installation, I highly recommend to do it manually at least once. You can just copy the above commands into an interactive PowerShell session and you will see what is going on:

It is just taking ages to install!

And I am not talking about minutes here, but about hours. If you do it interactively, you will see a second console which will print all download steps and display the current progress. You just have to wait a long time until it finishes.

If you want to install it on multiple machines, I recommend to download it only once, serve the layout files (basically your offline installer) on premise and install VS from there.

Upvotes: 0

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