我对 npm package nexe 和 Visual Studio 有问题，试图在 an.exe 中转换 nodejs 应用程序

Question

nexe is a npm package to convert nodejs apps to an.exe, but I have a problem when I run

nexe --build index.js

so I add --verbose and this is the message:

the message said: failed to find a suitable Visual studio installation and also vcbuild.bat nosign release x64 exited with code: 1

My question is:

is it mandatory to have visual studio installed? I read that "desktop development with c++" is necessary to make the.exe in windows. BUT:

I make this question because my internet connection is so bad, and the visual studio installation will take me 4 or 5 days, because it's a little bit more of 7gb. Is there a lighter alternative that has the necessary packages?

NOTE: I make this question here in stackoverflow because I open a issue in the nexe github repo and nobody answered me. So i hope someone tried that package and if they got the same error tell me what they did to fix it

NOTE 2: I also tried pkg for vercel, but also have problems making an.exe

Answer 1

As described here ( gitanswer.com ) this is indeed necessary for making nexe finally work. In my case it was the solution. I installed VS 2022 and added the marked workload additionally.

I ran nexe-4.0.0-beta-19 on Windows.

First I had to install NSAM from here ( nasm.us ) and Python (3.10 using chocolatey in my case).