Suggest installing Build tools rather than Visual Studio

Co-authored-by: J. Ryan Stinnett <jryans@gmail.com>
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@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ If you want to build native modules, make sure that the following tools are inst
- [Python 3](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
- [Strawberry Perl](https://strawberryperl.com/)
- [Rust](https://rustup.rs/)
- [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) with the following packages
- MSVC VS 2019 C++
- Windows 10 SDK
- C++ Clang tools
- [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
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.