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Node-gyp.md

https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejs-guidelines/blob/master/windows-environment.md#compiling-native-addon-modules

There are three primary reasons you might be interested in this section:

• you have an existing C++ library you'd like to take advantage of in your Node.js application
• you are interested in optimizing the performance of some code by writing it in C++
• you're running into dreaded node-gyp issues and have no idea what's going on.

Identifying native modules

How do you know if an npm package you want to install is a native module? Look for nan, node-gyp, or node-pre-gyp dependencies.

Environment setup and configuration:

Prerequisites

• Option 1:

  Install all the required tools and configurations using Microsoft's windows-build-tools by running npm install -g windows-build-tools from an elevated PowerShell (run as Administrator).

• Option 2:

  Install dependencies and configuration manually

  1. Visual C++ Build Environment:
     • Option 1: Install Visual C++ Build Tools using the Default Install option.
     • Option 2: Install Visual Studio 2015 (or modify an existing installation) and select Common Tools for Visual C++ during setup. This also works with the free Community and Express for Desktop editions.

💡 [Windows Vista / 7 only] requires .NET Framework 4.5.1

2. Install Python 2.7 (v3.x.x is not supported), and run npm config set python python2.7
3. Launch cmd, npm config set msvs_version 2015

Verify everything's working

Here are a few packages you can try installing to see if your environment is set up properly.

• bson
• bufferutil
• kerberos
• node-sass
• sqlite3
• phantomjs
• utf-8-validate