Compiling in Visual Studio 2013

[Lug16]

Hey! I just want to tell you, I'm running a Win8-64 with just visual studio 2013 Ultimate installed, and when I try to use iconv (npm install iconv) I getting the following error:

iconv@2.0.7 install C:\Users\Lug\Documents\GitHub\node-iconv node-gyp rebuild C:\Users\Lug\Documents\GitHub\node-iconv>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modu les\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.t argets(64,5): error MSB8020: The build tools for Visual Studio 2012 (Platform T oolset = 'v110') cannot be found. To build using the v110 build tools, please i nstall Visual Studio 2012 build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the c urrent Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the sol ution, and then selecting "Upgrade Solution...". [C:\Users\Lug\Documents\GitHub \node-iconv\build\iconv.vcxproj] gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\msbuild.exe fail ed 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:789: 12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200 gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modu les\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Lug\Documents\GitHub\node-iconv gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.22 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.11.0 gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! iconv@2.0.7 install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the iconv@2.0.7 install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the iconv 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 iconv npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200 npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nod ejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "--msvs-version=2012" npm ERR! cwd C:\Users\Lug\Documents\GitHub\node-iconv npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\Lug\Documents\GitHub\node-iconv\npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0

Hope you can check that...

Thanks for all

[bnoordhuis]

That's a gyp issue. It tries to auto-detect the VS version but that frequently fails. Try setting GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013 (or 2013e) in the environment.

[paulvandermeijs]

I've tried npm install iconv --msvs_version=2013e and got this:

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/iconv
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/iconv

> iconv@2.0.7 install c:\Users\Paul\Workspace\test\node_modules\iconv
> node-gyp rebuild

c:\Users\Paul\Workspace\test\node_modules\iconv>node "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\gyp", line 18, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 526, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 502, in gyp_main
    options.circular_check)
  File "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 98, in Load
    generator.CalculateVariables(default_variables, params)
  File "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 1713, in CalculateVariables
    generator_flags.get('msvs_version', 'auto'))
  File "c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\MSVSVersion.py", line 366, in SelectVisualStudioVersion
    versions = _DetectVisualStudioVersions(version_map[version], 'e' in version)
KeyError: '2013e'
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (c:\Bin\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:467:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
gyp ERR! command "node" "c:\\Bin\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd c:\Users\Paul\Workspace\test\node_modules\iconv
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.22
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.11.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! iconv@2.0.7 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the iconv@2.0.7 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the iconv 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 iconv
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "c:\\Bin\\nodejs\\node.exe" "c:\\Bin\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "iconv" "--msvs_version=2013e"
npm ERR! cwd c:\Users\Paul\Workspace\test
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     c:\Users\Paul\Workspace\test\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[bnoordhuis]

Your copy of npm is too old, you need at least v1.3.15. That's the npm that ships with node v0.10.23.

[paulvandermeijs]

Works, thanks!

[daric81]

@bnoordhuis This worked for me thanks!

[adetunji]

@bnoordhuis works like a gem (no pun)