Installing v8-profiler using npm

Question

While trying

npm install -g v8-profiler

I'm hitting the below errors:

..\graph_node.cc(99): error C2039: 'GetRetainersCount' : is not a member of 'v8::HeapGraphNode' [C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\v8
-profiler\build\profiler.vcxproj]
          C:\Users\username\.node-gyp\0.10.15\deps\v8\include\v8-profiler.h(249) : see declaration of 'v8::HeapGraphNode'
..\graph_node.cc(132): error C2039: 'GetRetainedSize' : is not a member of 'v8::HeapGraphNode' [C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\v8-
profiler\build\profiler.vcxproj]
          C:\Users\username\.node-gyp\0.10.15\deps\v8\include\v8-profiler.h(249) : see declaration of 'v8::HeapGraphNode'
..\graph_node.cc(154): error C2039: 'GetRetainer' : is not a member of 'v8::HeapGraphNode' [C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\v8-prof
iler\build\profiler.vcxproj]
          C:\Users\username\.node-gyp\0.10.15\deps\v8\include\v8-profiler.h(249) : see declaration of 'v8::HeapGraphNode'
..\graph_node.cc(162): error C2039: 'GetDominatorNode' : is not a member of 'v8::HeapGraphNode' [C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\v8
-profiler\build\profiler.vcxproj]
          C:\Users\username\.node-gyp\0.10.15\deps\v8\include\v8-profiler.h(249) : see declaration of 'v8::HeapGraphNode'
  profiler.cc

Looks like a compilation issue. What might be wrong ? My system has :

1. Visual Studio 2010
2. Windows SDK 7.1 Note: If you get error on installation, maybe this link will help you.
3. Visual Studio 2010 SP1
4. Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1
5. Python 2.7

As mentioned in : https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/wiki/Visual-Studio-2010-Setup

Answer 1

I just ran into this same issue. It looks like NodeFly's fork of v8-profiler contains the fix that Sean described, so I installed that version instead:

npm install nodefly-v8-profiler