CMake: Visual Studio 15 2017 could not find any instance of Visual Studio

Question

When I am trying to install CMake I get the error:

Visual Studio 15 2017 could not find any instance of Visual Studio.

I am using Windows 7

Answer 1

Try downloading the windows-build-tools package.

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools --vs2015

This step should be the end-all-be-all solution to fixing node-gyp problems. For most people, that’s true. NPM has a package called windows-build-tools that should automatically install everything you need to get node-gyp working, including the Microsoft build tools, compilers, Python, and everything else required to build native Node modules on Windows.