What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install node.js on Win7 x64 machine
2. Install Windows SDK 7.1
3. Run "npm install -g ws"
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
* Expected: compilation goes through
* Actual: compilation fails with the error message below
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
* node-gyp@1.0.1 via npm@1.4.23 on node.js@0.10.31
* MS Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
* Windows SDK 7.1 downloaded from [1] and installed with default options
Please provide any additional information below.
ERROR MESSAGE
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(297,5): warning
MSB8003: Could not find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry.
TargetFrameworkVersion or PlatformToolset may be set to an invalid version
number.
[C:\Users\Mikhail\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\x64\Microsoft.Cpp.x64.Targets(146,5):
error MSB6006: CL.exe avbröts med koden -1073741515.
[C:\Users\Mikhail\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ws\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]
It seems a lot of users are hit by this issue and the workaround is to invoke
SetEnv.cmd manually as per [2] I've tried to track down the root cause of this
problem and I think I know what causes it.
As follows from MSVSVersion source code [3], it looks for Windows SDK paths in
several places in the registry. There is logic for the case when Visual Studio
is installed along with Windows SDK as well as for the case when only Windows
SDK is installed. It appears, that the latter part has a bug. The code looks
for the path to Windows SDK in
HKLM\Software\(Wow6432Node\)Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VC7\10.0 which points to
a non-existent directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\VC\. It should instead look at
HKLM\SOFTWARE\(Wow6432Node\)Microsoft\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.1\InstallationFolder which points to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.1\. This directory indeed contains the Bin\SetEnv.Cmd file that
sets environment variables. I've found the right registry key thanks to Dan
Malcolm at StackOverflow [4].
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
[2] https://gist.github.com/kosmobot/6020327
[3]
https://code.google.com/p/gyp/source/browse/trunk/pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py#330
[4]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2748974/how-to-set-sgen-toolpath-in-msbuild-t
o-target-3-5-framework/5701714#5701714
Original issue reported on code.google.com by mikhail....@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2014 at 3:00
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mikhail....@gmail.comon 9 Sep 2014 at 3:00