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Usman.T
Usman.T

Reputation: 19

How to use Visual Studio 2022 build tools for NODE JS chocolatey

I am trying to install Node JS and as of writing this, chocolatey still defaults to Visual Studio 2019 build tools.

I want to ask if it is possible via any simple method to use the VS 2022 build tools instead of the 2019 ones, since they are quite old now.

I tried to install Node JS latest and wanted an option to use the VS 2022 build tools instead of 2019.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1969

Answers (2)

Usman.T
Usman.T

Reputation: 19

The way i got it to work was to

1- Install NodeJS once

2- Go to the nodejs installation directory open the ./build_tools.bat via an editor. Replace visualstudio2019-workload-vctools with visualstudio2022-workload-vctools.

3-Copying this new script outside the folder.

4- Uninstalling NODEJS

5- Begin a new installation, check the install chocolatey prompt on the installation .

6- Do not click finish

7- Copy the old script into the nodjs directory, WHILE keeping the installation program open.

8- Clicking finish to now install chocolatey as usual but now chocolatey will download and install vs 22 rather than 2019

Upvotes: -1

Windos
Windos

Reputation: 1946

It looks like Node.js is opting to install the visualstudio2019-workload-vctools package. Given you've now got Chocolatey CLI installed, you can use it to also install the visualstudio2022-workload-vctools package like this from an elevate command prompt:

choco install visualstudio2022-workload-vctools

If you want to get rid of the 2019 tools, you can do that via Chocolatey as well:

choco uninstall visualstudio2019-workload-vctools

Note, there may be a reason Node.js is still installing the older tools. If needed you can always uninstall the 2022 version and re-install 2019 (just swap around the commands above as required.)

Upvotes: 3

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