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# Windows
## Requirements to build native modules
If you want to build native modules, make sure that the following tools are installed on your system.
- [Node 14 ](https://nodejs.org )
- [Python 3 ](https://www.python.org/downloads/ )
- [Strawberry Perl ](https://strawberryperl.com/ )
- [Rust ](https://rustup.rs/ )
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- [Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 ](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019 ) with the following configuration:
- On the Workloads tab:
- Desktop & Mobile -> C++ build tools
- On the Individual components tab:
- MSVC VS 2019 C++ build tools
- Windows 10 SDK (latest version available)
- C++ CMake tools for Windows
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Once installed make sure all those utilities are accessible in your `PATH` .
In order to load all the C++ utilities installed by Visual Studio you can run the following in a terminal window.
```
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
```
You can replace `amd64` with `x86` depending on your CPU architecture.
