How to install Visual C Build tools

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I need to install Visual C   Build Tools  When I ve download installer  I ve tried to install it  however it s telling me I need to uninstall VS 2015   How can I solve it  Why is Visual C   Build tools telling me it needs to remove current VS 2015 installation

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The current version  2019 03 07  is Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017  It s an online installer  you need to include at least the individual components    VC   2017 version xx x tools Windows SDK to use standard libraries

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You can check Announcing the official release of the Visual C   Build Tools 2015 and from this blog  we can know that the Build Tools are the same C   tools that you get with Visual Studio 2015 but they come in a scriptable standalone installer that only lays down the tools you need to build C   projects  The Build Tools give you a way to install the tools you need on your build machines without the IDE you don   t need   Because these components are the same as the ones installed by the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 setup  you cannot install the Visual C   Build Tools on a machine that already has Visual Studio 2015 installed  Therefore  it asks you to uninstall your existing VS 2015 when you tried to install the Visual C   build tools using the standalone installer  Since you already have the VS 2015  you can go to Control Panel   Programs and Features and right click the VS 2015 item and Change-Modify  then check the option of those components that relates to the Visual C   Build Tools  like Visual C    Windows SDK    then install them  After the installation is successful  you can build the C   projects

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I had the same issue too  the problem is exacerbated with the download link now only working for Visual Studio 2017  and installing the package from the download link did nothing for VS2015  although it took up 5gB of space   I looked everywhere on how to do it with the Nu Get package manager and I couldn t find the solution   It turns out it s even simpler than that  all you have to do is right-click the project or solution in the Solution Explorer from within Visual Studio  and click  Install Missing Components

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I just stumbled onto this issue accessing some Python libraries  Microsoft Visual C   14 0 is required  Get it with  quot Microsoft Visual C   Build Tools quot    The latest link to that is actually here   https   visualstudio microsoft com downloads  build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019 When you begin the installer  it will have several  quot options quot  enabled which will balloon the install size to 5gb   If you have Windows 10  you ll need to leave selected the  quot Windows 10 SDK quot  option as mentioned here   I hope it helps save others time

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