looking for a recipe to install c++ and python2.7

[refack]

Hello,

At the Node.js project we're trying to create an installer utility that will get all the build tools needed to later compile native addons.
ATM we use boxstarter to do:

choco upgrade -y python2
choco upgrade -y visualstudio2017buildtools
choco upgrade -y visualstudio2017-workload-vctools

But I was wondering if we could do it with a single package something like visualstudio2017buildtools + vctools + python2?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[jberezanski]

You can install all desired Visual Studio Build Tools components in one choco.exe invocation using package parameters, e.g.:

choco upgrade -y visualstudio2017buildtools --package-parameters "--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --includeRecommended"

(the package passes nearly all package parameters directly to the VS installer, so the official Microsoft documentation applies: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/use-command-line-parameters-to-install-visual-studio?view=vs-2017)

The python2 package is completely unrelated, so if you want to install everything using only one choco package then you need to craft such a package yourself, for example by merging the install scripts of the existing packages. I'm not sure why you would need to do that, however - could you elaborate on why you cannot install two or more packages?

[refack]

I don't need the python2 package specifically. AFAICT the VS installer can slipstream python and that should be good enough:

For the node-core development we use python for build scaffolding, tooling and as a test harness.
Recently we started to use boxstarter to wrap everything together, and it's tricky. I was thinking that it's actually overkill if all we need is VC++, an SDK, python2, and G4W, and now they are all available as "Individual Components" in the VS installer. And that is we can do it all in one choco call we don't need boxstarter.

[refack]

P.S. thank you for you time and attention.

[jberezanski]

So, have you been able to determine the set of component identifiers needed to install all components required by your development process in one go and translate it to package parameters?