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doc: add a note for using configure on Windows #1152

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Expand Up @@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ platform. Use `configure` for that:
$ node-gyp configure
```

Auto-detection fails for Visual C++ Build Tools 2015, so `--msvs_version=2015`
needs to be added (not needed when run by npm as configured above):
``` bash
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you could do ```ShellSession since it's not bash

$ node-gyp configure --msvs_version=2015
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maybe something like c:\node>

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__Note__: The `configure` step looks for the `binding.gyp` file in the current
directory to process. See below for instructions on creating the `binding.gyp` file.

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