Build with Visual Studio 2017

docs/development/build-instructions-windows.md

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Follow the guidelines below for building Electron on Windows.
 ## Prerequisites
 
 * Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 or higher
-* Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 - [download VS 2015 Community Edition for
-  free](https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/older-downloads/)
+* Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 - [download VS 2017 Community Edition for
+  free](https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/)
 * [Python 2.7](http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/)
 * [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/download/)
 * [Git](http://git-scm.com)

script/lib/env_util.py

@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ def get_vs_env(vs_version, arch):
   """
   Returns the env object for VS building environment.
 
-  The vs_version can be strings like "12.0" (e.g. VS2013), the arch has to
+  The vs_version can be strings like "2017", the arch has to
   be one of "x86", "amd64", "arm", "x86_amd64", "x86_arm", "amd64_x86",
   "amd64_arm", e.g. the args passed to vcvarsall.bat.
   """
-  vsvarsall = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio {0}\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat".format(vs_version)
+  vsvarsall = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\{0}\\Community\\VC\\Auxiliary\\Build\\vcvarsall.bat".format(vs_version)
   return get_environment_from_batch_command([vsvarsall, arch])

script/lib/util.py

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ def import_vs_env(target_arch):
     vs_arch = 'amd64_x86'
   else:
     vs_arch = 'x86_amd64'
-  env = get_vs_env('14.0', vs_arch)
+  env = get_vs_env('2017', vs_arch)
   os.environ.update(env)
 
 

script/update.py

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def run_gyp(target_arch, component):
   if PLATFORM == 'linux' and target_arch != get_host_arch():
     env['GYP_CROSSCOMPILE'] = '1'
   elif PLATFORM == 'win32':
-    env['GYP_MSVS_VERSION'] = '2015'
+    env['GYP_MSVS_VERSION'] = '2017'
   python = sys.executable
   if sys.platform == 'cygwin':
     # Force using win32 python on cygwin.