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

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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    gt  git clone https   github com einaros ws git C    gt  cd ws C    ws gt node-gyp configure     C    ws gt node-gyp build gyp info it worked if it ends with ok gyp info using node-gyp 0 8 2 gyp info using node 0 8 16   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

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I had the same isuee and did all the magic above, the only thing that did the magic for me is from https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2435

"Because the --msvs_version=2013 is not passed to node-gyp when it's run by the build script. Set the GYP_MSVS_VERSION = 2013 env variable and it should work after."

Bang! it worked

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Thanks to  felixrieseberg  you just need to install windows-build-tools npm package and you are good to go   npm install --global --production windows-build-tools   You won t need to install Visual Studio   You won t need to install Microsoft Build Tools   From the repo      After installation  npm will automatically execute this module  which   downloads and installs Visual C   Build Tools 2015  provided free of   charge by Microsoft  These tools are required to compile popular   native modules  It will also install Python 2 7  configuring your   machine and npm appropriately       Windows Vista   7 requires  NET Framework 4 5 1  Currently not   installed  automatically by this package       Both installations are conflict-free  meaning that they do not mess with existing installations of Visual Studio  C   Build Tools  or   Python

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Install Python 2 7  not 3 x  Add the path to the directory containing vcbuild exe on your environment variable PATH  If you need vcbuild exe get it here  https   github com kin9puppy vcbuildFixForNode

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I think the solution is to download install Microsoft windows sdk for server 2008 with  net framework 3 5  or just install Visual studio 2008   The issue is for windows builds node-gyp executes vcbuid exe file  and for some reason it can t find it   Thanks

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On Windows This helped me   credits goes to  https   github com TooTallNate node-gyp wiki Updating-npm 27s-bundled-node-gyp I tried MINGW32  but with no success   on cmd exe    cd  C  Program Files nodejs node modules npm    npm install -g node-gyp latest

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Update v3  https   www npmjs com package windows-build-tools  npm install --global windows-build-tools     downloads and installs Visual C   Build Tools 2015  provided free of charge by Microsoft  These tools are required to compile popular native modules  It will also install Python 2 7  configuring your machine and npm appropriately    Update v2   node-gyp updated their readme to include HOW-TO for windows  Original    No need for the entire visual studio  you can download just the build tools  Microsoft Build Tools 2013   http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 40760  run cmd to set global flag to use the 2013 version   npm config set msvs version 2013 --global  after this everything should be back to normal and your npm install   node-gyp rebuild will work

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Try that - will set it globally   npm config set msvs version 2012 --global

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I had also a lot of problem to compile nodejs zmq   For the problem with with vcbuild exe  just add it to the PATH  For other problems I could compile just using Windows 7 1 SDK Command Prompt   Menu Programs -  Microsoft Windows SDK v7 1 -  Windows 7 1 SDK Command Prompt   And from the prompt   npm install zmq  That s works

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just add --msvs version 2012   node-gyp rebuild --msvs version 2012   or   node-gyp configure --msvs version 2012 node-gyp build

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I had the same issue when trying to install a package for Node js  After some extensive googeling I found this walktrough  https   github com TooTallNate node-gyp wiki Visual-Studio-2010-Setup  When I had followed these steps I could use  npm install  without any issues

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I solved this problem on windows 8 and windows 10 pro with this tutorial  I try a lot of times to solve this problem with many different solutions  but only worked for me with this  http   www serverpals com blog building-using-node-gyp-with-visual-studio-express-2015-on-windows-10-pro-x64 I notice that i didn t use nodist to control the node version like this tutorial  I use NVM and worked fine  i don t test this tutorial with nodist  I used node 5 2 0

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To do it without VS2010 installation  and only 2012  set the msvs version flag   node-gyp rebuild --msvs version 2012  npm install  lt module gt  --msvs version 2012  as per  Jacob comment  npm install --msvs version 2013 if you have the 2013 version

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After a long struggle  I ve switched my node architecture to x86 and it worked like a charm

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in  cmd set Visual Studio path depending upon ur version as  Visual Studio 2010  VS10   SET VS90COMNTOOLS  VS100COMNTOOLS   Visual Studio 2012  VS11   SET VS90COMNTOOLS  VS110COMNTOOLS   Visual Studio 2013  VS12   SET VS90COMNTOOLS  VS120COMNTOOLS    In node-master  original node module downloaded from git   run vcbuild bat with admin privileges  vcbild bat will generate windows related dependencies and will add folder name Release in node-master  Once it run it will take time to build the files   Then in the directory having  gyp file use command  node-gyp rebuild --msvs version 2012 --nodedir  Dive Name  path to node-master node-master    this will build all the dependencies

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on windows 8  it worked for me using    npm install -g node-gyp -msvs version 2012   then  npm install -g restify

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After DAYS of digging  someone on IRC suggested that I try to use the  Windows 7 1 SDK Command Prompt   Shortcut  links to C  Windows System32 cmd exe  E ON  V ON  T 0E  K  C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 1 Bin SetEnv cmd    I think you MUST have the older 7 1 SDK  even on Windows 8 1  because the newer ones use msbuild exe instead of vcbuild exe which is what node-gyp wants even though it s twice as old as node at this point     Once in that prompt  I had to run the following to get x86 context because the compiler was throwing as error otherwise about architecture   setenv cmd  Release  x86   THEN I was able to successfully run npm commands that were trying to use node-gyp to recompile things

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For windows 8 64-bit  installing zmq and protobuf  the following worked for me  Install Visual Studio 2012 On the command line   SET VisualStudioVersion 11 0 npm install zmq npm install protobuf

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