npm install error - MSB3428 Could not load the Visual C component VCBuild exe

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I m trying to use the  npm install steam   but I am getting an error saying     I m not sure how to fix this and I have gotten this on two different npm module installs  I can install other modules however   What I have tried  Install whatever dependencies it needs   ursa  node-gyp etc  Install Visual C   2005  Install Visual C   2010  Change the enviroment variable path to  VC   found on another StackOverflow thread question  Googled  googled  amp  googled   I also get an error trying do   npm install ursa   The error is

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1 install  lite server  and then try below command   npm run lite

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It s mentioned in the Documentation clearly as below  https   github com nodejs node-gyp installation  Option 1  Install all the required tools and configurations using Microsoft s windows-build-tools using npm install --global --production windows-build-tools  from an elevated PowerShell or CMD exe  run as Administrator    npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

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The problems here are to do with the npm node-gyp module  I found the solutions offered on the build page for that project effective   node-gyp page on github  There s a fully automatic way and a manual way

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As Matt said  https   stackoverflow com a 43323045 2767413  you should install the build-tools for windows  However  I did it via cmd and got an error  although I am the administrator -  Please restart this script from an administrative PowerShell  The build tools cannot be installed without administrative rights  To fix  right-click on PowerShell and run  as Administrator     I got the same error via a PowerShell   For windows 7  the administrative PowerShell can be found under   Control Panel -  System and Security -  Administrative Tools -  Windows PowerShell Modules

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For me worked install the component  VCBuild exe   just dowload the wizard  install and them open the cmd again as administrator and try run again  Updated link to dowload the wizard here

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I know it s a very old question  but is the first in my google search and after some time I got how to solve this   find node on your windows with    npm install -g which    which node  after cd into the directory  inside the directory cd into node modules npm folder and finally     npm install node-gyp latest  here worked  the answer is from this site

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I tried the above suggested npm install --global --production windows-build-tools but found that the installation was always hanging forever    I managed to fix the problem by installing Node js 8 instead of Node js 10

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npm install --global windows-build-tools  just run this command via powershell  right click and run as administrator    worked for me

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Try this from cmd line as Administrator  optional part  if you need to use a proxy   set HTTP PROXY http   login password your-proxy-host your-proxy-port set HTTPS PROXY http   login password your-proxy-host your-proxy-port   run this   npm install -g --production windows-build-tools   No need for Visual Studio  This has what you need   References   https   www npmjs com package windows-build-tools https   github com felixrieseberg windows-build-tools

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i know this is old  i actually just had the same issue  i was able to solve it by running npm install -g node-gyp and fixed  npm

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Tried npm install mongoose --msvs version 2012  if you have multiple Visual installed  it worked for me

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Just to add to the above answer  anyone finding an issue of the installers taking forever  I found my issue was python  I uninstalled both my versions 3 and versions 2   The re-ran the command in PowerShell terminal as the admin and it installed almost straight away   npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

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I managed to get it working by following Option 2 on the Windows installation instructions on the following page  https   github com nodejs node-gyp   I had to close the current command line interface and reopen it after doing the installation on another one logged in as Administrator

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For those the above answer does not work  here is another possible solution to look at    Issue  On installing npm os-service package i was getting below error error MSB4019  The imported project  d  M icrosoft Cpp Default props  was not found  Confirm that the path in the  declaration is correct  Even the installation of build tools or VS 2015 did not work for me  So I tried installing below directly via PowerShell  as admin   https   chocolatey org packages visualcpp-build-tools 14 0 25420 1 Command  choco install visualcpp-build-tools --version 14 0 25420 1  Once this was installed  set an environment variable  VCTargetsPath C  Program Files  x86  MSBuild Microsoft Cpp v4 0 v140  Then installation of the package worked perfectly fine after these

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PLEASE FOLLOW THE FLOW CORRECTLY WINDOWS 10x64   Powershell run as administrator npm install -g node-gyp   npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

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Look at the installation instructions for node-gyp - you can t just npm install node-gyp  I see you ve installed Visual C    but there s more to it    What version of windows do you have  If I knew that I might be able to tell you which part of the node-gyp instructions you didn t do  but check them out and you should be able to figure it out  I ve gone through a bit of pain for this stuff too

[node.js] npm install error - MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe"

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