While running an npm install
that required a node-gyp rebuild, the following build error was thrown:
MSB8020: The build tools for v120 (Platf
I already spend 2 days installing all VS versions...
npm install oracledb --msvs_version=2015
Return all lot of errors :
[..]node-gyp\6.9.1\include\node\v8.h(18): fatal error C1083[..]
Using
npm install oracledb --msvs_version=2013
Return a lot of warnings, compile but doesn't work properly after.
[..]warning C4995: 'v8::Value::ToUint32'[..]
This is my worst ever experience with a npm module. What a waste of time :/
I wanted to add a comment to 2Toad's answer but stackoverflow doesn't let me. You can set the msvs_version globally with this command:
npm config set msvs_version 2015 --global
This saves you putting it in each projects config object.
Setting version to 2015 didn't help for me. Try setting it to 2013 instead:
npm config set msvs_version 2013
or
npm config set msvs_version 2015
Use the msvs_version param: npm install --msvs_version=2015
If the msvs_version param doesn't work, it's probably because you don't have a Visual C++ 2015 build environment installed.
As an alternative to VS2015, you can install the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 released by Microsoft:
Now that a Visual C++ 2015 build environment has been installed, you can tell npm to use it via the msvs_version param:
npm install --msvs_version=2015
Optionally, instead of specifying the msvs_version at the command prompt, you can configure npm to always include the msvs_version param by adding it to your npmrc or package.json:
npmrc
Open PowerShell and run npm config set msvs_version 2015
, which will add this param to your user npmrc file. Henceforth, every time you run npm install
, as this user, the msvs_version=2015
param will automatically be included
optionally, you can include the global flag
npm config set msvs_version 2015 --global
if you plan on logging in with different Windows accounts, and you want this setting to apply to all accounts on the machine
package.json
Modify your project's package.json file to include:
"config": {
"msvs_version": 2015
}
Henceforth, every time you run npm install
, for this project, the msvs_version=2015
param will automatically be included
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I'll share this answer since none of the other fixes resolved my issue. I was having the same errors but setting the msvs param:
npm install --msvs_version=2015
was not solving the problem. I could see that it was looking in the wrong place for the toolset no matter what I did.
Long story short I learned that MSBuild is now packaged with Visual Studio and no longer packaged with .NET. Sure enough I had this entry in the PATH variable:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319;
and consequently the wrong (old) version of MSBuild was being called. I removed this entry and added the following path which is relevant for VS2015:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\
Problem solved.