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Visual studio 2017 community is installed on my PC along with Visual Studio Build Tools 2017. I am using Windows 10.

Is it still necessary to install Visual C++ Build Tools? Is there a possibility that there will be some packages that cannot be compiled if Visual C++ Build Tools is not available even though Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 is there?

guagay_wk
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    "It didn't fix my problems, though." - if you don't say what those problems were, it's hard to advise. Can you build and execute a simple C++ "hello World" console program? –  Feb 13 '19 at 00:05
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    Build Tools is intended for systems that do not have the Visual Studio IDE installed. I believe the IDE comes with the build tools integrated. You should not require a separate installation. – paddy Feb 13 '19 at 00:09
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40504552/how-to-install-visual-c-build-tools This might help. – user1669844 Feb 13 '19 at 00:09
  • @Neil Butterworth, I edited that comment away to avoid confusing readers with unrelated issues. Thank you for reading my question. – guagay_wk Feb 13 '19 at 00:10
  • Well, no, that doesn't fix the question per my previous comment. –  Feb 13 '19 at 00:12
  • @Neil Butterworth, I missed that question in your comment. No problem building and executing C++ programs with both build tools. – guagay_wk Feb 13 '19 at 00:14

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