Aloha stackoverflowers. I have spent approximately 20 hours researching and attempting to build NodeJS modules under Windows 7. Research topics have included the many famous threads on node-gyp, including the "TooTallNate" threads. Most of the advice threads go something like this:
- Uninstall all visual studio and vs libraries completely off the development machine
- Uninstall all VS re-distributables as well just to be safe (they can be re-instaleld later).
- Re-install visual studio (take your pic, the tutorials all say that vs2010, vs2012, vs2013, or express version of any of these work)
- Re-install libraries (Specifically the Windows SDK 7.1 is mentioned a lot)
- Launch a command prompt using the visual studio shortcut to autopopulated environment variables and path
- Use the --msvs_version=vsxxxx (where xxx is the year of your visual studio version) option when building.
I have tried
- VS2008 (Full)
- VS2008 (Express)
- VS2010 (Full)
- VS2010 (Express)
- VS2012 (Express)
- VS2013 (Express)
I have also tried (making no difference whatsoever):
- NodeJS 32-bit
- NodeJS 64-bit
Apparently getting node-gyp to compile is not the issue, as "npm install node-gyp@latest -g" executes with zero warnings. I have installed NodeJS for windows.
C:\myproject\node_modules\node-hid>npm -v
2.14.3
C:\myproject\node_modules\node-hid>node -v
v4.0.0
C:\myproject\node_modules\node-hid>node-gyp -v
v3.0.3
Python is at 2.7 and I have registered it's location with npm and node-gyp
But no matter what, I am not able to compile node modules such as node-hid, keytar, etc. without receiving a multitude of various compiler errors, usually related to something it doesn't like in various .h files.
Here's my attempt with VS2013:
cd c:\myproject\node_modules\
C:\myproject\node_modules>git --recursive https://github.com/node-hid/node-hid.git
cd node-git
C:\myproject\node_modules\node-hid>node-gyp build --msvs_version=2013
\\Let the code spew begin!
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@3.0.3
gyp info using node@4.0.0 | win32 | x64
gyp info spawn msbuild
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=x64' ]
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
hidapi.vcxproj -> C:\my_project\node_modules\node-hid\build\Release\
hidapi.lib
HID.cc
..\src\HID.cc(51): error C3861: 'NanThrowError': identifier not found [C:\TEMP\myproject\node_modules\node-hid\build\HID.vcxproj]
..\src\HID.cc(67): warning C4290: C++ exception specification ignored except to indicate a function is not __declspec(nothrow) [C:\my_project\node_modules\node-hid\build\HID.vcxproj]
..\src\HID.cc(70): warning C4290: C++ exception specification ignored except to indicate a function is not __declspec(nothrow) [C:\my_project\node_modules\node-hid\build\HID.vcxproj]
..\src\HID.cc(92): error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'NanCallback' [C:\my_project\node_modules\node-hid\build\HID.vcxproj]
..\src\HID.cc(106): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '*' [C:\my_project\node_modules\node-hid\build\HID.vcxproj]
.... (the list goes on)
When I tried VS2008/VS2008 express, I received warnings that stdint.h was missing. I tried several stdint.h's that were contributed by the community, including one in the NodeJS distribution for Windows that was actually named "stdint-msvc2008.h". No matter which stdint.h I put into VS2008's include folder, I would get a huge explosion of angry warnings regarding mismatches etc.
When I tried to build on VS2010, I would get a generic MSBxxxx warning about labels.
When I tried VS2013 I get a lot of "nanthrowerror" messages. I get the same "nan.h" related error messages for various node_modules I try to build.
All of the help files and Windows with NodeJS advice and help threads that I find seem revolved around helping developers solve environment/variable issues, helping them install VS in the correct order, helping them install node-gyp and helping them use the correct --msvs_version=vsxxx tag. As far as I can tell, none of these are my issue. I don't get any warnings about a missing vcbuild.exe or missing msbuild.exe, it is indeed trying to compile using the Visual Studio Express installation on my machine, but I am missing something.
First off, what can I do to help provide more information on my question?
Related threads and references:
- https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/master/README.md
- Cannot install node modules that require compilation on Windows 7 x64/VS2012
(I have more links to share, but it says my reputation is not high enough)
