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rebuild node-pty failed

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When I run command as follows in node-pty(win10 system), nothing wrong: “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “rebuild”, but electron-rebuild node-pty failed.

node: 8.11.2 node-gyp: 3.6.2 electron: 2.0.16 electron-rebuild:1.8.2 node-pty:0.8.0 VCTargetsPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.cpp\v4.0\v140 msvs_version=2015 python2.7

Error message: winpty-agent.vcxproj -> C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\node-pty\build\Release\winpty-agent.exe winpty-agent.vcxproj -> C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\node-pty\build\Release\winpty-agent.pdb (Full PDB) gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: msbuild failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:258:23) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:198:12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.10586 gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “rebuild” “–target=2.0.16” “–arch=x64” “–dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron” “–build-from-source” gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\node-pty gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.2 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2 gyp ERR! not ok

Failed with exit code: 1 at SafeSubscriber._error (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\spawn-rx\lib\src\index.js:277:84) at SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:242:16) at SafeSubscriber.error (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:201:26) at Subscriber._error (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:132:26) at Subscriber.error (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:106:18) at MapSubscriber.Subscriber._error (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:132:26) at MapSubscriber.Subscriber.error (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:106:18) at SafeSubscriber._next (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\spawn-rx\lib\src\index.js:251:65) at SafeSubscriber.__tryOrSetError (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:251:16) at SafeSubscriber.next (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Project\MyProject\node_modules\rxjs\Subscriber.js:191:27)

What happened?