From e585a9da54e55c83130413aa1a22953aba8b09e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:52:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add a note for using `configure` on Windows

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/1149
---
 README.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 22415430a0..d5443080dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ platform. Use `configure` for that:
 $ node-gyp configure
 ```
 
+Auto-detection fails for Visual C++ Build Tools 2015, so `--msvs_version=2015`
+needs to be added (not needed when run by npm as configured above):
+``` bash
+$ node-gyp configure --msvs_version=2015
+```
+
 __Note__: The `configure` step looks for the `binding.gyp` file in the current
 directory to process. See below for instructions on creating the `binding.gyp` file.