From 08270e681749503734eca209b78e30c08c305f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Kleinschmidt Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 10:45:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Specify VS 15.4.5 for 3-0-x (#14476) Resolves #12898 --- docs/development/build-instructions-windows.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/development/build-instructions-windows.md b/docs/development/build-instructions-windows.md index 0afd0ef3ea4..af8977fee49 100644 --- a/docs/development/build-instructions-windows.md +++ b/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 2017 15.7.2 or higher - [download VS 2017 Community Edition for - free](https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/) +* [Visual Studio 2017 15.4.5](https://web.archive.org/web/20180220131834/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/installing-an-earlier-release-of-vs2017) - Electron 3-0-x specifically requires Visual Studion 15.4.5 to build and newer versions will not work. You can [download VS 2017 15.4.5 Community Edition for + free](https://aka.ms/eam4b7). * [Python 2.7](http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/) * [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/download/) * [Git](http://git-scm.com)