Building Node.js on Visual Studio 2019

[GauthamBanasandra]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Visual Studio 2019 just came out and I tried to build node.js with it. I had a look at the supported toolchains and found that the only toolchain supported for Windows is Visual Studio 2017 - https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md#windows

Are there any plans to support building Node.js on Visual Studio 2019?

Describe the solution you'd like
Node.js should build successfully on Visual Studio 2019.

Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A

[bnoordhuis]

Are there any plans to support building Node.js on Visual Studio 2019?

Not that I'm aware. The build tool, tools/gyp, needs to be taught to write VS2019-compatible project files. I don't know how much work that entails.

[refack]

GYP3 can do that - #26620
There's just one bug that blocks building and it's addressed in #27148

[gengjiawen]

Actually current master support this. Just change set target_env=vs2019 in vcbuild.bat.

I am thinking change current strategy. If we can't find vs2017, then we find vs2019 to build instead of a failure message.

cc @nodejs/platform-windows @targos