`npm install` cannot find Visual Studio 2022 Community

• Node Version: v18.9.0, npm 8.0.0, node-gyp v9.0.0
• Platform: Windows 10
• Compiler: msbuild/2022
• Module: net-ping and icmp

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npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
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A side note: I am aware that the logs say node-gyp v8.2.0. however, running node-gyp -v returns v9.0.0

I have spent about four hours attempting to solve this issue, bouncing from stackoverflow to #2552 and back, and nothing seems to work. I have repeatedly followed the instructions from master/docs/Updating-npm-bundled-node-gyp.md as well as setting the VCINSTALLDIR env variable to the same value as it appears in the Visual Studio Developer Console and installing windows build tools, which also breaks (if you want I can give my logs for that, but it is not directly related). I have set msvs_version to 2022 in the npm config, set msbuild_path to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe, and ensured that my PowerShell terminal is in full language mode. I have installed the Desktop Development With C++ workload as well.

I am new-er to using native modules, so please excuse any lack of knowledge I have or information I have provided, though I tried to make sure I had everything.

[ErrorGamer2000]

I managed to fix this. It was definitely my older version of node-gyp, and I ran npm i -g node-gyp@9.1.0 --force just on a whim to see if it changed anything and everything now installs correctly. Sorry to bother you.

[ErrorGamer2000]

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I manually went in through windows and changed the environment variable VCINSTALLDIR since the terminal did not seem to be doing it. After I rebooted the terminal, this is what came out.