build,win: improve logs when ClangCL is missing #61438
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Fixes: #61437
Situation
If Visual Studio is installed without ClangCL on Node.js >= 24, the logs from executing
.\vcbuildon Windows could be misinterpreted as suggesting that Visual Studio was missing, not ClangCL.Change
Make minor text changes in vcbuild.bat to ease troubleshooting when ClangCL has not been installed according to BUILDING.md instructions.
Example logs after change applied
Visual Studio missing
Visual Studio 2026 Build Tools installed incompletely
https://aka.ms/vs/stable/vs_BuildTools.exe installed 18.2.0
The failure logs are the same whether only "Desktop development with C++" is missing or ClangCL is missing, or both are missing:
Prerequisites installed
Logs with all prerequisites installed and no errors reported concerning missing components: