From 2e23dd9553e14c20b22d56660ed05c60b80d79d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Basarat Ali Syed Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 09:31:13 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] windows build: `$env:GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013` might still be required closes https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/5888 --- docs/build-instructions/windows.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/build-instructions/windows.md b/docs/build-instructions/windows.md index fddb941c7..3f8c27660 100644 --- a/docs/build-instructions/windows.md +++ b/docs/build-instructions/windows.md @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ If none of this works, do install Github for Windows and use its Git shell. Make ``` $env:GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013 ``` + * If you are using Visual Studio 2013 and the build fails with some other error message this environment variable might still be required. * Other `node-gyp` errors on first build attempt, even though the right node and python versions are installed. * Do try the build command one more time, as experience shows it often works on second try in many of these cases.