Install Visual C++ Compiler on Windows without installing whole Visual Studio

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I'm trying to install npm module browsersync on Windows, and by reading its documentation, I found that module itself uses node-gyp which requires C++ compiler on Windows to build native extension. And that leads to installation of Visual Studio (community edition will do). After going through above linked questions (which I noted as duplicates of my current question), I found that Windows SDK used to ship with C++ compiler but now Visual Studio is required to have C++ compiler.

So my concern is, do I really need to download and install that hefty 6 GB VS Community edition just to get that C++ compiler to build browsersync on Windows? or is there any way to do that via GCC for Windows?

PS Earlier I faced similar situation for installing node-oracledb .

Thanks.

Answer 1

@Niall涵盖了可以获取实际C ++编译器的地方，但是如果您要查找有关该问题的更多信息，请在其使用独立编译器的github问题页面上获得有关如何启动node-gyp并在Windows上运行的演练。