When using visual studio 2015 community to build, vcbuild says that the configuration is invalid

[Gum-Joe]

I know I should be using 2013, but 2015 is similar to 2013 I think.

When I run vcbuild nosign, It says that target Release|MCD is invalid.

Full output

Looking for Visual Studio 2015
Found Visual Studio 2015
ctrpp not found in WinSDK path--using pre-gen files from tools/msvs/genfiles.
creating  icu_config.gypi
{ 'target_defaults': { 'cflags': [],
                       'default_configuration': 'Release',
                       'defines': [],
                       'include_dirs': [],
                       'libraries': []},
  'variables': { 'asan': 0,
                 'host_arch': 'x64',
                 'icu_small': 'false',
                 'node_byteorder': 'little',
                 'node_install_npm': 'true',
                 'node_prefix': '/usr/local',
                 'node_release_urlbase': '',
                 'node_shared_http_parser': 'false',
                 'node_shared_libuv': 'false',
                 'node_shared_openssl': 'false',
                 'node_shared_zlib': 'false',
                 'node_tag': '',
                 'node_use_dtrace': 'false',
                 'node_use_etw': 'true',
                 'node_use_lttng': 'false',
                 'node_use_openssl': 'true',
                 'node_use_perfctr': 'true',
                 'openssl_fips': '',
                 'openssl_no_asm': 0,
                 'python': 'C:\\Python27\\python.exe',
                 'target_arch': 'ia32',
                 'v8_enable_gdbjit': 0,
                 'v8_enable_i18n_support': 0,
                 'v8_no_strict_aliasing': 1,
                 'v8_optimized_debug': 0,
                 'v8_random_seed': 0,
                 'v8_use_snapshot': 1,
                 'want_separate_host_toolset': 1}}
creating  config.gypi
creating  config.mk
Project files generated.
C:\Users\Kishan Sambhi\Documents\Projects\node\node.sln.metaproj : error MSB4126: 
The specified solution configuration "Release|MCD" is invalid.
 Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties 
(e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU")
 or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration. [C:\Use
rs\Kishan Sambhi\Documents\Projects\node\node.sln]

C:\Users\Kishan Sambhi\Documents\Projects\node>

msbuild returns a similar output to the error.

I am using visual studio 2015.
System specs:

• 8GB of RAM
• Intel i5 quad-core processor
• HP Pavilion e078sa
• Windows 8.1

[Gum-Joe]

Should I just use Linux or vagrant vm or docker container for now

[Gum-Joe]

I am guessing yes

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[mathiask88]

@Gum-Joe May I ask you if you have a "Platform" environment variable. You can check this at Control Panel->Advanced System Settings->Environment Variables. If yes one solution is to delete it, but I don't know which program sets this, so maybe the vcbuild.bat can be more explicit?

[Gum-Joe]

Hi,
Thanks for your help @mathiask88
Turn out the environment variable $Platform was set.
After removing it, nodejs would build.
I will now close this issue since it has been resolved