Cannot install on Windows 10 (cannot find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry)

[jasonwilliams]

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(366,5): warning MSB8003: Cou ld not find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry.  TargetFrameworkVersion or PlatformToolset may be set to  an invalid version number. [*******************]
TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "CL.exe". The system cannot find the file specified. 

Has anybody else got this working?
I've installed Visual Studio 2015

[jasonwilliams]

I reinstalled Visual Studio 2015
went through the steps on this wiki and ran

call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\bin\Setenv.cmd" /Release /x64

Now i get this

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\CodeAnalysis\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.targets(214,5): error MSB4175: The task fac
tory "CodeTaskFactory" could not be loaded from the assembly "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v12.0.dll". Cou
ld not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v12.0.dll' or one of its dependencies.
The system cannot find the file specified.

gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.7
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v2.0.1
gyp ERR! not ok

[Fishbowler]

Check your GYP_MSVS_VERSION environment variable, and make sure it's set to 2015. This fixed the first problem for me. I couldn't even get so far as to get the v7.1 SDK installed, so never ran Setenv.cmd

[No9]

Also can you confirm which version of VS 2015 you installed and also confirmed that you have tried to create a C++ project in the IDE.
Thanks

[jasonwilliams]

@No9 i have not tried to create a C++ project, is this something i should have done?
Also i don't have VS 2015 installed any more as i found moving to 2013 worked, please see the bottom of: #679

@Fishbowler I tried that, it didn't work, i ended up uninstalling VS 2015 and installing 2013 instead (see the other issues thread) as these problems are the same

[No9]

@Jayflux I noticed in the community edition 2015 RTM that I didn't have a c++ env until I did that.
No formal instructions on it though :/
Happy that you have found a way through though.

[jaylinwang]

+1

[divmgl]

Anyone have this working? This is happening to me on Windows 8.

[No9]

Hey @divmgl
What exactly is the error.
Current recommendation is to create a C++ project in the IDE.

[abumalick]

@No9 It worked for me, thanks

[vpusher]

Creating a new C++ project and installing prompted deps worked for me too.

Windows 8.1, Node 0.12.7, npm 2.11.3, VS 2015 Community

I then tried with Node 4.1.1 but got some compilation errors with node-gyp (similar to this issue). So, I reverted Node to 0.12.7.

Hope will help.

[divmgl]

@No9 I apologize that I have not been able to get the exact error. For now I have reinstalled Node 0.12 and Visual Studio 2013 and my issues have been resolved.

[No9]

No worries @divmgl thanks for getting back.
@Jayflux if your issue is resolved then can we close this off?

[Elicherla01]

I am getting same problem on Windows 10. "warning MSB8003: Could not find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry." I am using Node js V4.1.1

[ocombe]

Got this working on windows 10 & node js v4 & visual studio community 2015. As @No9 stated, you need to launch Visual studio, then do: file > new > project, in the window that opened, select "Model > Visual C++" and in the middle of the window you should see a button "install microsoft C++" or something like that, click on it and it will launch the install process for the C++ & Microsoft SDK.
Once that's done it will work as expected !

[tttanaka]

I was receiving this error and followed the steps above (@Combe and @No9). Thanks!

[jasonwilliams]

Can we close this ticket as its a duplicate of #679
If anyone has issues can you please discuss them there instead
Thanks

[allenhwkim]

Agreed to @ocombe, For me, Windows 10 / VS2015 environment, File-New-Project, Installed-Templates-Visual C++, Install SOMETHING did work.

[johnjelinek]

#694 (comment) works for me too.

[theblang]

@ocombe Yeah, that worked me! I had to go to File -> New Project -> Templates, then click on the Visual C++ list item, then in the main area of the dialogue box I saw Install Visual C++ 2015 Tools for Windows Desktop. After doing that my npm install worked. It was sha3 that was causing the problem. I'm surprised I haven't broken one of my monitors by now.

[danilo-teixeira-2]

@ocombe , that worked me! Thanks!!

[jasonwilliams]

Is there anything in the readme that needs to be updated?