Fail in VS2017 : TRK0005: Failed to locate: "CL.exe"

`Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the “/m” switch. TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: “CL.exe”. The system cannot find the file specified. [C:\Users\himad\Documen ts\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\BlankNode\BlankNode\node_modules\sharp\build\libvips-cpp.vcxproj]

gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:285:23) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:194:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.15063 gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “rebuild” gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\himad\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\BlankNode\BlankNode\node_modules\sharp gyp ERR! node -v v7.9.0 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! sharp@0.17.3 install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the sharp@0.17.3 install script ‘node-gyp rebuild’. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the sharp package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs sharp npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls sharp npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\himad\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2017-04-16T15_03_11_790Z-debug.log`

[lovell]

It looks like you’re using node-gyp v3.6.0, which added VS2017 support, so that’s a good start.

KeyError: '2017' suggests node-gyp can’t detect the version of Visual Studio. Perhaps try forcing it using:

npm config set msvs_version 2017

[refack]

Bug is in node-gyp@3.6.0 incompatible with super new SDKs 10.0.15063.Desktop See edit in https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/1144#issuecomment-290253041