doc: add a note for using configure on Windows

PR-URL: #1152 Fixes: #1149 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: João Reis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]>
nodejs · Apr 23, 2017 · c09cf76 · c09cf76
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@@ -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.