Cannot install node modules that require compilation on Windows 7 x64/VS2012

Question

I cannot install any of the modules that require compilation. All they fail with the following error:

MSBUILD : error MSB3411: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". ... 

My environment:

• Windows 7 Enterprise x64, version 6.1.7601
• node x86 0.8.16
• npm 1.2.0
• node-gyp 0.8.2
• Visual Studio 2012 and numerous packages

Related environment variables:

Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShel l\v1.0;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;c:\tools;c:\tools\node 

No INCLUDE, LIB, LIBPATH, etc.

I did a short investigation of the issue and figure out that with the following setup the manual compilation (calling VCBuild.exe and msbuild.exe directly) succeed for the manually cloned git://github.com/einaros/ws.git:

SET Configuration=Release SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcpackages SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin;%PATH% SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE;%PATH% SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin;%PATH% SET PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%PATH%  SET INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include SET INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Include;%INCLUDE%  SET LIB=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Lib SET LIB=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\lib;%LIB%  SET MSBUILD="%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe"  VCBuild.exe C:\Tools\node\ws\build\bufferutil.vcproj "Release|Win32" /useenv VCBuild.exe C:\Tools\node\ws\build\validation.vcproj "Release|Win32" /useenv %MSBUILD% build/binding.sln /verbosity:diagnostic /nologo /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32 

I've tried to call node-gyp with the same variables and it failed:

C:\!> git clone https://github.com/einaros/ws.git C:\!> cd ws C:\!\ws>node-gyp configure ... C:\!\ws>node-gyp build gyp info it worked if it ends with ok gyp info using [email protected] gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | ia32 gyp info spawn C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe gyp info spawn args [ 'build/binding.sln', gyp info spawn args   '/clp:Verbosity=minimal', gyp info spawn args   '/nologo', gyp info spawn args   '/p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32' ] Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch. C:\Users\User\.node-gyp\0.8.16\deps\uv\include\uv.h(55): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or directory [C:\!\ ws\build\binding.sln] C:\Users\User\.node-gyp\0.8.16\deps\uv\include\uv.h(55): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or directory [C:\!\ ws\build\binding.sln] gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (c:\Tools\node\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:255:23) gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:99:17) gyp ERR! stack     at Process._handle.onexit (child_process.js:678:10) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601 gyp ERR! command "c:\\Tools\\node\\\\node.exe" "c:\\Tools\\node\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "build" gyp ERR! cwd C:\!\ws gyp ERR! node -v v0.8.16 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.8.2 gyp ERR! not ok 

Maybe you will have some ideas about it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try that - will set it globally:

npm config set msvs_version 2012 --global 

Answer 2

To do it without VS2010 installation, and only 2012, set the msvs_version flag:

node-gyp rebuild --msvs_version=2012

npm install <module> --msvs_version=2012

as per @Jacob comment

npm install --msvs_version=2013 if you have the 2013 version