Make windows building easier by talking about windows-build-tools

[reconbot]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/windows-build-tools <3 this is a great amount of work by @felixrieseberg. Updating our windows section of our readme would be of great help.

[giseburt]

AFAICT, node-serialport doesn't compile with --msvs_version=2015, which is what that installs. Am I missing something?

[reconbot]

I probably am, I haven't had time to dig into it. Why don't we install with
it?

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AFAICT, node-serialport doesn't compile with --msvs_version=2015, which is
what that installs. Am I missing something?

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[giseburt]

This appears to be the source of the problem I'm seeing: nodejs/node-gyp#972

Good news: npm -g install npm@latest fixed it. This is then a transient error.

[reconbot]

We delegated to node-gyp's instructions for windows with some pointers.