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If you want to build native modules, make sure that the following tools are installed on your system.
- [Git for Windows](https://git-scm.com/download/win)
- [Node 14](https://nodejs.org)
- [Python 3](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
- [Python 3](https://www.python.org/downloads/) (if you type 'python' into command prompt it will offer to install it from the windows store)
- [Strawberry Perl](https://strawberryperl.com/)
- [Rust](https://rustup.rs/)
- [Rustup](https://rustup.rs/)
- [NASM](https://www.nasm.us/)
- [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
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- C++ CMake tools for Windows
Once installed make sure all those utilities are accessible in your `PATH`.
If you want to be able to build x86 targets from an x64 host install the right toolchain:
```cmd
rustup toolchain install stable-i686-pc-windows-msvc
rustup target add i686-pc-windows-msvc
```
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
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
```
You can replace `amd64` with `x86` depending on your CPU architecture.