node-gyp on windows problem with UnicodeDecodeError
Reason
node-gyp writen in python
python have 2 mode for work with strings - unicode and ascii
node-gyp use ascii mode
windows use utf-8 for paths
python throw UnicodeDecodeError for chars out of range 0..127 (Cyrillic chars for example)
Stacktrace example
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\gyp_main.py", line 50, in <module>
sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 554, in script_main
return main(sys.argv[1:])
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 547, in main
return gyp_main(args)
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 532, in gyp_main
generator.GenerateOutput(flat_list, targets, data, params)
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 2019, in GenerateOutput File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 954, in _GenerateProject return _GenerateMSBuildProject(project, options, version, generator_flags)
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 3400, in _GenerateMSBuildProject
easy_xml.WriteXmlIfChanged(content, project.path, pretty=True, win32=True)
File "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\easy_xml.py", line 123, in WriteXmlIfChanged
xml_string = xml_string.encode(encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 2691: ordinal not in range(128)
Solution
Exclude dirs with non latin chars
node-gyp use os home dir for store node C headers, change it:
