ffi-napi issue on windows while installation

[RinkalBhojani]

I am facing below issue on my windows machine while installation.

@TimoGlastra @berendsliedrecht @genaris - Do you have any idea for this?

It fails to build 'ffi-napi' related package.

PS D:\Project\credo-ts> pnpm install Scope: all 19 workspace projects Lockfile is up to date, resolution step is skipped Packages: +1646 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Progress: resolved 1646, reused 1646, downloaded 0, added 0, done node_modules/.pnpm/@mattrglobal+node-bbs-signatures@0.18.1/node_modules/@mattrglobal/node-bbs-signatnode_modules/.pnpm/@mattrglobal+node-bbs-signatures@0.18.1/node_modules/@mattrglobal/node-bbs-signatures: Running install script, failed in 1.5s (skipped as optional) node_modules/.pnpm/@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9/node_modules/@2060.io/ffi-napi: Running install script, failed in 6s .../node_modules/@2060.io/ffi-napi install$ node-gyp-build │ D:\Project\credo-ts\node_modules.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node_modules\@2060.io\ffi-napi>i…
│ gyp info it worked if it ends with ok │ gyp info using node-gyp@10.1.0 │ gyp info using node@18.20.4 | win32 | x64 │ gyp info find Python using Python version 3.12.6 found at "C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Loca…
│ gyp info find VS using VS2022 (17.11.35303.130) found at: │ gyp info find VS "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community" │ gyp info find VS run with --verbose for detailed information │ gyp info spawn C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python.exe │ gyp info spawn args [ │ gyp info spawn args 'C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pnpm\dist…
│ gyp info spawn args 'binding.gyp', │ gyp info spawn args '-f', │ gyp info spawn args 'msvs', │ gyp info spawn args '-I', │ gyp info spawn args 'D:\Project\credo-ts\nodemodules\.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node…
│ gyp info spawn args '-I', │ gyp info spawn args 'C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pnpm\dist…
│ gyp info spawn args '-I', │ gyp info spawn args 'C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.20.4\inclu…
│ gyp info spawn args '-Dlibrary=shared_library', │ gyp info spawn args '-Dvisibility=default', │ gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_root_dir=C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache…
│ gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_gyp_dir=C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modu…
│ gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_lib_file=C:\\Users\\Rinkal Bhojani\\AppData\\Local\\node-…
│ gyp info spawn args '-Dmodule_root_dir=D:\Project\credo-ts\node_modules\.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi…
│ gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_engine=v8', │ gyp info spawn args '--depth=.', │ gyp info spawn args '--no-parallel', │ gyp info spawn args '--generator-output', │ gyp info spawn args 'D:\Project\credo-ts\nodemodules\.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node…
│ gyp info spawn args '-Goutput_dir=.' │ gyp info spawn args ] │ gyp info spawn C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBu…
│ gyp info spawn args [ │ 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' │ gyp info spawn args ] │ nothing.c │ nothing.vcxproj -> D:\Project\credo-ts\node_modules.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node_module…
│ Preprocessing assembly file ......\deps\libffi\src\x86\win64_intel.preasm │ '"call"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, │ operable program or batch file. │ D:\Project\credo-ts\node_modules.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node_modules\@2060.io\ffi-napi\b…
│ gyp ERR! build error │ gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\…
│ gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess. (C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_mo…
│ gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28) │ gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:292:12) │ gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.19045 │ gyp ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Users\Rinkal Bhojani\AppData\Roa…
│ gyp ERR! cwd D:\Project\credo-ts\node_modules.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node_modules\@2060.…
│ gyp ERR! node -v v18.20.4 │ gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v10.1.0 │ gyp ERR! not ok └─ Failed in 6s at D:\Project\credo-ts\node_modules.pnpm\@2060.io+ffi-napi@4.0.9\node_modules\@2060.io\ffi-napi  ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.

Am I missing something or needs to changed

[genaris]

Maybe this is related to the comment from @btsimonh in https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/52240#issuecomment-2432473563. I'll check as soon as I can get a Windows machine, but in the meantime probably it may work for you if you force node-gyp-build to version 4.8.2, i.e. add it to package.json's resolutions field:

resolutions: {
...
"node-gyp-build": "4.8.2",
...
}

[RinkalBhojani]

resolutions: { "node-gyp-build": "4.8.2" }

@genaris - I tried this but got the same error.

[btsimonh]

'"call"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

see the mods I mention in https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi/pull/270 - the one about libffi.gyp.