Cannot install node modules that require compilation on Windows 7 x64/VS2012

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I cannot install any of the modules that require compilation. All they fail with the following error:

MSBUILD : error MSB3411: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". ...

My environment:

  • Windows 7 Enterprise x64, version 6.1.7601
  • node x86 0.8.16
  • npm 1.2.0
  • node-gyp 0.8.2
  • Visual Studio 2012 and numerous packages

Related environment variables:

Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShel l\v1.0;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;c:\tools;c:\tools\node

No INCLUDE, LIB, LIBPATH, etc.

I did a short investigation of the issue and figure out that with the following setup the manual compilation (calling VCBuild.exe and msbuild.exe directly) succeed for the manually cloned git://github.com/einaros/ws.git:

SET Configuration=Release
SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcpackages
SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin;%PATH%
SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE;%PATH%
SET PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin;%PATH%
SET PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%PATH%

SET INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include
SET INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Include;%INCLUDE%

SET LIB=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Lib
SET LIB=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\lib;%LIB%

SET MSBUILD="%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe"

VCBuild.exe C:\Tools\node\ws\build\bufferutil.vcproj "Release|Win32" /useenv
VCBuild.exe C:\Tools\node\ws\build\validation.vcproj "Release|Win32" /useenv
%MSBUILD% build/binding.sln /verbosity:diagnostic /nologo /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32

I’ve tried to call node-gyp with the same variables and it failed:

C:\!> git clone https://github.com/einaros/ws.git
C:\!> cd ws
C:\!\ws>node-gyp configure
...
C:\!\ws>node-gyp build
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@0.8.2
gyp info using node@0.8.16 | win32 | ia32
gyp info spawn C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe
gyp info spawn args [ 'build/binding.sln',
gyp info spawn args   '/clp:Verbosity=minimal',
gyp info spawn args   '/nologo',
gyp info spawn args   '/p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32' ]
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
C:\Users\User\.node-gyp\0.8.16\deps\uv\include\uv.h(55): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or directory [C:\!\
ws\build\binding.sln]
C:\Users\User\.node-gyp\0.8.16\deps\uv\include\uv.h(55): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdint.h': No such file or directory [C:\!\
ws\build\binding.sln]
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (c:\Tools\node\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:255:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:99:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process._handle.onexit (child_process.js:678:10)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
gyp ERR! command "c:\\Tools\\node\\\\node.exe" "c:\\Tools\\node\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "build"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\!\ws
gyp ERR! node -v v0.8.16
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.8.2
gyp ERR! not ok

Maybe you will have some ideas about it?

Thanks.

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