NPM native builds with only Visual Studio 2013 installed

Question

I\'ve got a clean install of Windows with Visual Studio 2013 Pro installed, along with current versions of Python, node and npm.

I\'m trying to install the pg

Answer 1

What helped me is to specify environment variable GYP_MSVS_VERSION to to use correct VS
you can set it in Control center or in console before running npm, so for 2013 it is

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013

and for 2015 you use

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2015

With free VS 2013 or 2015 community edition it should be the easiest way.

PS
I believe for VS 2013 Express you should use

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013e

where e tells npm to use express version