node-gyp version issue

Thanks for this opportunity to report an issue! I have been using node-gyp on Mac and Windows, and am currently experiencing a problem in Windows. I have:

1. Installed VS community 2017
2. Installed VS Build tools 2017
3. Installed NVM
4. Ran nvm install 12.12.0 then nvm use 12.12.0
5. Did a npm install –global windows-build-tools from administrator Powershell
6. Did an npm config set msvs_version 2017
7. Did an npm install –g node-gyp
8. Did an npm install –g nw-gyp When I do an npm node-gyp -v , I get the version as 6.11.3 On doing an npm install in VSCode, I get the following within the terminal output:

gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\r.foss\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v12.12.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “rebuild” gyp ERR! cwd D:\Git-Repos\ImmerGo-Demo\immergo-demo\node_modules\midi gyp ERR! node -v v12.12.0 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.3 gyp ERR! This is a bug in node-gyp.

I can’t understand why the error is occurring, and also why the node-gyp version is indicated as 5.0.3 ? Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

[DeeDeeG]

Hmm, the instructions in the Wiki for Windows are a bit wrong. Those instructions use the -g flag when they shouldn’t.

To update npm’s copy of node-gyp, one should:

• Go to [Your_node_dir]\node_modules\npm and
• run npm install node-gyp
  • (This isn’t right: npm install -g node-gyp)

Also: npm-lifecycle has its own dependency on node-gyp that should be updated too:

• Go to [Your_node_dir]\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle and
• run npm install node-gyp.

That is the version that actually gets run when doing an npm install, apparently.

(I suspect npm’s top-level dependency on node-gyp is just there to allow more direct and convenient control over the version of node-gyp that gets shipped with npm, for the npm maintainers. It seems a bit redundant, otherwise.)

[RichardFoss]

Apologies for the slow reply - from my side, yes, it can be closed. Thanks for your help!!