node-gyp fails for grpc on windows-latest action, with Node 12 and 14

• Node Version: v12.16.3 (also observed on v14).
• Platform: windows-latest GitHub action (Windows Server 2019).
• Compiler: not sure.
• Module: grpc (as seen in unit tests for https://github.com/googleapis/cloud-trace-nodejs).

Verbose output (from npm or node-gyp):

Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "-m" switch.
  win_delay_load_hook.cc
  WINDOWS_BUILD_WARNING.vcxproj -> D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\Release\\WINDOWS_BUILD_WARNING.node
  address_sorting.c
  address_sorting_posix.c
  address_sorting_windows.c
  win_delay_load_hook.cc
  address_sorting.vcxproj -> D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\Release\\libaddress_sorting.lib
  ares__close_sockets.c
  ares__get_hostent.c
##[warning]D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\cares\cares\ares__get_hostent.c(141,32): warning C4996: 'inet_addr': Use inet_pton() or InetPton() instead or define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS to disable deprecated API warnings [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\ares.vcxproj]
  ares__read_line.c
  ares__timeval.c
  ares_cancel.c
  ares_create_query.c
  ares_data.c
  ares_destroy.c
  ares_expand_name.c
  ares_expand_string.c
  ares_fds.c
  ares_free_hostent.c
  ares_free_string.c
 ares_platform.c
  ares_process.c
  ares_query.c
  ares_search.c
  ares_send.c
  ares_strcasecmp.c
  ares_strdup.c
  ares_strerror.c
  ares_strsplit.c
  ares_timeout.c
  ares_version.c
  ares_writev.c
  bitncmp.c
  inet_net_pton.c
  inet_ntop.c
  windows_port.c
  win_delay_load_hook.cc
  ares.vcxproj -> D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\Release\\libares.lib
  err_data.c
  a_bitstr.c
##[warning]D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(147,1): warning C4005: 'OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER': macro redefinition (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
##[error]C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\12.16.3\include\node\openssl\ossl_typ.h(92,30): error C2371: 'EVP_MD_CTX': redefinition; different basic types (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c)D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(303,30): error C2371: 'EVP_MD_CTX': redefinition; different basic types (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\crypto\asn1\a_bitstr.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\12.16.3\include\node\openssl\ossl_typ.h(92): message : see declaration of 'EVP_MD_CTX' (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\crypto\asn1\a_bitstr.c)D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(303): note: see declaration of 'EVP_MD_CTX' (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
##[error]D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(304,26): error C2371: 'EVP_MD': redefinition; different basic types (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\crypto\asn1\a_bitstr.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
##[error]C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\12.16.3\include\node\openssl\ossl_typ.h(91): message : see declaration of 'EVP_MD' (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\crypto\asn1\a_bitstr.c)C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\12.16.3\include\node\openssl\ossl_typ.h(100,34): error C2371: 'EVP_ENCODE_CTX': redefinition; different basic types (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
##[error]D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(308,34): error C2371: 'EVP_ENCODE_CTX': redefinition; different basic types (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\crypto\asn1\a_bitstr.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\12.16.3\include\node\openssl\ossl_typ.h(100): message : see declaration of 'EVP_ENCODE_CTX' (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\crypto\asn1\a_bitstr.c)D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(308): note: see declaration of 'EVP_ENCODE_CTX' (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
##[error]C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\12.16.3\include\node\openssl\crypto.h(231,3): error C2371: 'CRYPTO_THREADID': redefinition; different basic types (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]
D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\deps\grpc\third_party\boringssl\include\openssl\base.h(231): message : see declaration of 'CRYPTO_THREADID' (compiling source file ..\deps\grpc\src\boringssl\err_data.c) [D:\a\cloud-trace-nodejs\cloud-trace-nodejs\node_modules\grpc\build\boringssl.vcxproj]

This failure started cropping up with the most recent release of Node 12, and also occurs on Node 14. We continue to be able to compile on Node 10 at latest.

A full failing test run can be found here (GitHub actions makes it difficult to copy the whole terminal).

[bcoe]

Talking with Michael, it sounds like this is something that will need to be fixed on the grpc end 👌

[murgatroid99]

You can’t just build grpc from source on Windows. We screw around with header files when we build the binaries that we distribute, and we don’t expect our users to do that. We do currently distribute binaries for Node 12, so that may be a download failure, but we don’t distribute binaries for Node 14 so I wouldn’t expect that one to work.