npm fails on windows 7 x64 when calls to node-gyp.js rebuild

[Babay88]

system: Windows7 x64, node.js x64. python 2.7.3.
trying to install pg or sqlite3. both call node-gyp.js rebuild - and that causes an error.
sorry, I have russian windows - that causes "???"

D:\job\TimeRecordService>npm install sqlite3
 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sqlite3
 npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/sqlite3
 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sqlite3/-/sqlite3-2.1.5.tgz
 npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/sqlite3/-/sqlite3-2.1.5.tgz

sqlite3@2.1.5 install D:\job\TimeRecordService\node_modules\sqlite3
 node-gyp rebuild

D:\job\TimeRecordService\node_modules\sqlite3>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
 gyp ERR! configure error
 gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: CreateProcessW: ???????? ? ???????.
 gyp ERR! stack
 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:540:15)
 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:91:17)
 gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (child_process.js:638:16)
 gyp ERR! stack at Socket.ChildProcess.spawn.stdin (child_process.js:815:11)
 gyp ERR! stack at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:88:17)
 gyp ERR! stack at Socket._destroy.destroyed (net.js:357:10)
 gyp ERR! stack at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:244:9)
 gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
 gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuil
 d"
 gyp ERR! cwd D:\job\TimeRecordService\node_modules\sqlite3
 gyp ERR! node -v v0.8.9
 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.6.8
 gyp ERR! not ok
 npm ERR! sqlite3@2.1.5 install: node-gyp rebuild
 npm ERR! cmd "/c" "node-gyp rebuild" failed with 1

[TooTallNate]

Wow, crazy timing. I was literally just booting up my VM to report the same issue.

I should note that when invoking npm install xxx from cmd.exe, things work as expected. But when I invoke the command from a Git Bash, or Mozilla Build (which is also bash) window, then I get this error.

[piscisaureus]

odd. It works here from git-bash.

[piscisaureus]

@TooTallNate What error do you get? The ??????? doesn't really help, but I suppose that you don't have a russian windows.

[TooTallNate]

"The system cannot find the file specified."

[Babay88]

@TooTallNate, nope, I have the same error when I run "node-gyp.js rebuild" from command-line

[TooTallNate]

@Babay88 Ya, I think that happens when node-gyp tries to spawn python.exe. I think it's the same core issue though.

[TooTallNate]

@piscisaureus I think this is the same as #3968.

[Babay88]

@TooTallNate, I guess so. but I can't get any additional info on that (

[piscisaureus]

@piscisaureus I think this is the same as #3968.

@TooTallNate That'd be surprising; that issue is about being unable to spawn .bat/.cmd files, but if python.exe is on your PATH then it should just try to use that.

[Babay88]

@TooTallNate, do you think node-gyp configure runs npm ? that error is for launching bat files, not python.

D:\job\TimeRecordService>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" configure
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@0.6.8
gyp info using node@0.8.9 | win32 | x64
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: CreateProcessW: ???????? ? ???????.
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:540:15)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:91:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (child_process.js:638:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.ChildProcess.spawn.stdin (child_process.js:815:11)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:88:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket._destroy.destroyed (net.js:357:10)
gyp ERR! stack     at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:244:9)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "config
ure"
gyp ERR! cwd D:\job\TimeRecordService
gyp ERR! node -v v0.8.9
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.6.8
gyp ERR! not ok

[TooTallNate]

Actually, running node-gyp rebuild manually works for me. Nix my comment
about python.exe.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Bert Belder notifications@git.luolix.topwrote:

@piscisaureus https://github.com/piscisaureus I think this is the same
as #3968 #3968.

@TooTallNate https://github.com/TooTallNate That'd be surprising; that
issue is about being unable to spawn .bat/.cmd files, but if python.exe is
on your PATH then it should just try to use that.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/4047#issuecomment-8785071.

[Babay88]

??? - is a "Access is denied" error. I can't get rid of it.
I set full control to users for python27 folder and for folder where nodeJS is located. user has also full control rights for current folder too.
I ran cmd as an administrator - that didn't helped either.
and I can't find, what permission is denied.

[Babay88]

as a result if solving:
the probles was: PYTHON environment variable had value "c:\python27" - and node-gyp tryed to run a directory.
setting PYTHON="c:\python27\python.exe" ot removing it (so node-gym guessed the location) solved the error.
but... error-reporting is bad.

[muchine]

I had exactly the same problem. node-expat installation worked fine after changing PYTHON env to poin to python.exe file. However, I faced the "msbuild.exe" failure.... I have to dig around it.

[skopp]

I have this issue... tried with cmd prompt win-mingsys32 shell and then with cygwin, where I force closed the window because it seemed to be stuck.

Gosh, as I was typing, I had been trying a third time using the cmd prompt again... and this is the output:

npm install -g node-gyp
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp/-/node-gyp-0.8.1.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp/-/node-gyp-0.8.1.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/which
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/glob
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/osenv
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/request
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nopt
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/rimraf
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fstream
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/graceful-fs
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/semver
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/npmlog
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tar
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/glob
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nopt
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/osenv
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/rimraf
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/which
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/osenv/-/osenv-0.0.3.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/which/-/which-1.0.5.tgz
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/request
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/graceful-fs
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/semver
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/npmlog
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/osenv/-/osenv-0.0.3.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fstream
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/which/-/which-1.0.5.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fstream/-/fstream-0.1.20.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fstream/-/fstream-0.1.20.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ansi
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/block-stream
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ansi
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/inherits
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/block-stream
C:\Users\Rash\AppData\Roaming\npm\node-gyp -> C:\Users\Rash\AppData\Roaming\npm\
node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js
node-gyp@0.8.1  __path to ...\npm\node_modules\node-gyp
├── osenv@0.0.3
├── which@1.0.5
├── graceful-fs@1.1.14
├── semver@1.1.1
├── rimraf@2.0.3
├── mkdirp@0.3.4
├── nopt@2.0.0 (abbrev@1.0.3)
├── glob@3.1.14 (inherits@1.0.0)
├── fstream@0.1.20 (inherits@1.0.0)
├── request@2.9.203
├── npmlog@0.0.2 (ansi@0.1.2)
├── minimatch@0.2.9 (lru-cache@2.0.4, sigmund@1.0.0)
└── tar@0.1.14 (inherits@1.0.0, block-stream@0.0.6) 

As I said it just processed, so I will check it out and report soon hopefully

[bnoordhuis]

No activity in 10 months, assuming stale. Closing.

[aodj]

For any one looking for a solution I found setting the PYTHON environment variable to the full path to the python.exe resolved the issue.

[avinashega]

setting the path to python.exe resolved the issue for me too. Thanks.

[aurbano]

Tried using the solution by @aodj with no luck. Here is the output:

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:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd F:\Alejandro\proyects\prerender\node_modules\phantom-cluster\node_modules\phantom\node_modules\dnode\node_modules\weak
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.26
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok

I have installed:

• Visual Studio C++ 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2012.
• Win7 64 bit SDK
• Python 2.7.6

Any ideas?

[avinashega]

did you try this ?

npm install <module_name> --msvs_version=2012

[aurbano]

That did it! I was thinking that the problem might be that it wasn't using
the right version, but I couldn't find a way to do it.
Thanks

[AurelienDevGames]

@avinashega solution worked for me too 👍

[jafet-gonzalez]

@aurbano thanks man , i was searching for this all day

[avevlad]

c:\Users\Vlad\projects\av\node_modules\base64>node "c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: spawn ENOENT
gyp ERR! stack     at errnoException (child_process.js:1001:11)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:792:34)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
gyp ERR! command "node" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd c:\Users\Vlad\projects\av\node_modules\base64
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.32
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.1
gyp ERR! not ok
-

[pVesian]

It's an old issue, but I just had this error with a fresh install on my Windows 7. I just went to http://nodejs.org/ and clicked "install" and executed the MSI (v0.10.33).
If node-gyp needs Python, why isn't it installed with Node if it's a dependency?

Edit: I just figured out I need Visual Studio too. No way install that shit on my PC, I'm out of here.

[evil-shrike]

I'm experiencing this issue when installing Sinopia (actually crypt3 which it depends on). I have Python installed and in PATH. I also have Visual Studio with C++ installed (2013, 2010) and all VC++ redistributables.

C:\Work\R-n-D> npm install -g sinopia
C:\Program Files\nodejs\sinopia -> C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\sinopia\bin\sinopia

> crypt3@0.1.6 install C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\sinopia\node_modules\crypt3
> node-gyp rebuild


C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\sinopia\node_modules\crypt3>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.InvalidPlatform.Targets(23,7): error MSB80 07: The Platform for project 'crypt3.vcxproj' is invalid.  Platform='x64'. You may be seeing this message
because you are trying to build a project without a solution file, and have specified a non-default Platfo rm that doesn't exist for this project. [C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\sinopia\node_modules\crypt3\ build\crypt3.vcxproj]
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `msbuild` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\sinopia\node_modules\crypt3
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.26
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.2
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "sinopia"
npm ERR! node v0.10.26
npm ERR! npm  v2.1.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! crypt3@0.1.6 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the crypt3@0.1.6 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the crypt3 package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls crypt3
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\Work\R-n-D\npm-debug.log

C:\...js\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib>python
Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:44:16) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

[othiym23]

Hey, everybody:

1. @evil-shrike Your problem looks like either an issue with crypt3's gypfile or with the version of VS you're using to build it. It's not a Node or npm issue.
2. Everybody, while Node packages npm, this issue tracker isn't a great place to get help with it. File issues with npm on npm/npm.

Thanks!

[ntbinh]

@avinashega: you saved my live 👍

[hqxluoyang]

node-rebuild error

[ahgood]

Try to run cmd.exe as administrator role.

[hometlt]

this article helps me https://www.robertkehoe.com/2015/03/fix-node-gyp-rebuild-error-on-windows/

npm config set python /Python27/python.exe --global