https://github.com/httptoolkit/check-msvc-runtime
An npm package to easily show a warning if the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is not installed on Windows
https://github.com/httptoolkit/check-msvc-runtime
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An npm package to easily show a warning if the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is not installed on Windows
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/httptoolkit/check-msvc-runtime
- Owner: httptoolkit
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2024-11-06T16:48:36.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-12-19T18:30:11.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-01T13:42:43.834Z (10 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 13.7 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Check-MSVC-Runtime
> _Part of [HTTP Toolkit](https://httptoolkit.com/): powerful tools for building, testing & debugging HTTP_
An npm package to easily show a warning if the Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) Redistributable is not installed on Windows.
Many Windows binaries won't run without the MSVC runtime installed, so this can cause problems, but those applications often don't provide a clear error. This makes it easy to end up with a hard-to-set up npm project. To handle that, this package makes it easy to cleanly detect and warn whenever this happens, so developers can easily resolve it themselves.
To use this:
* `npm install check-msvc-runtime`
* Add `"preinstall": "check-msvc-runtime"` to your package.json scripts
Now, any time you `npm install` in your repo on Windows, if the MSVC runtime isn't installed it'll fail and show:
```bash
> check-msvc-runtime@0.0.0 preinstall
> ./bin.js
***********************
The Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime is not installed, and is
required to set up this project on Windows.
Install it from:
https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist
***********************
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path .../check-msvc-runtime
npm ERR! command failed
```