node-canvas: Error C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1

[Corristo-X]

Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe failed with exit code: 1
at ChildProcess.onExit (D:\RoboOptim\RoboOptim\node_modules@electron\rebuild\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:203:23)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28)
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:292:12)

✖ Rebuild Failed

An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
node-gyp failed to rebuild 'D:\RoboOptim\RoboOptim\node_modules\canvas'

Error: node-gyp failed to rebuild 'D:\RoboOptim\RoboOptim\node_modules\canvas'
at ChildProcess. (D:\RoboOptim\RoboOptim\node_modules@electron\rebuild\lib\module-type\node-gyp\node-gyp.js:118:24)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28)
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:292:12)

node-gyp v10.2.0
node v17.9.1/ same error on node v20.17.0
windows 11
on linux mint the program works fine for me.

[cclauss]

You might want to look at the Windows steps at https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yaml#L31

Please do not post screenshot images because they are not searchable.

[Corristo-X]

@cclauss unfortunately nothing helped from this link

[turbidwater]

I am in the same boat. I have tried downgrading both node and node-gyp to the versions indicated in the link and still am running into the error. Mine is while trying to build libdvbtee_parser. I'm using Python 3.13.0, Visual Studio 2022 with the C for Desktop workload, and node 18.12.0 and node-gyp 8 installed globally.

[cclauss]

Python 3.12 and 3.13 will break node-gyp < v10 because the need setuptools. See what!s new in Python 3.12 for details.

[turbidwater]

Thanks for the quick response! I downgraded python to 3.11 and am still encountering the same issues:

npm ERR! gyp info spawn C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'build/binding.sln',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/clp:Verbosity=minimal',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/nologo',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/m:8'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\nthin\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v18.12.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:201:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.26100
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\nthin\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v18.12.0\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "-j" "8"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd C:\_projects\THEO\THEOplayer\src\theoplayer-next\web\streams\node_modules\libdvbtee_parser
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v18.12.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.1.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\nthin\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2024-10-31T18_44_30_337Z-debug-0.log

I notice that the node-gyp version is listed in the output as 9.1.0, yet I've only installed 8.4.1, and that's the version in my nodejs install.

[cclauss]

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/main/docs/Updating-npm-bundled-node-gyp.md#updating-the-npm-bundled-version-of-node-gyp

npm bundles its own, internal, copy of node-gyp.

Also, look at package.json and package-lock.json files in the local directories.

[turbidwater]

Thanks for the suggestion. Following that I was able to get it to use v8.4.1. That then asked for a Windows SDK for Visual Studio, which I installed and now I am back at the same place:

npm ERR! gyp info spawn C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'build/binding.sln',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/clp:Verbosity=minimal',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/nologo',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/m:8'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\nthin\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v18.12.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\@npmcli\run-script\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:194:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.26100
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\nthin\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v18.12.0\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\@npmcli\\run-script\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "-j" "8"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd C:\_projects\web\streams\node_modules\libdvbtee_parser
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v18.12.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.4.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

Any other suggestions?

[gongyuan300]

Python 3.12 和 3.13 将破坏 node-gyp < v10，因为需要setuptools。有关详细信息，请参阅 Python 3.12 中的新增功能。

这个是啥意思，是说安装python3.12以上版本后，环境会被破坏吗导致打包失败

[cclauss]

• Modernize node version matrix Automattic/node-canvas#2465

[NenadBojkovski]

Hi!
I'm having the same issue. @turbidwater did you manage to find a fix/workaround for it?

Here is my setup:
node v.23.4.0
npm v10.9.2
node-gyp v11.0.0
python 3.12.6
VS 2022 BuildTools
OS Windows_NT 10.0.19845

Thank you!

[turbidwater]

@NenadBojkovski No, I never found a solution. I just removed the package that was requiring node-gyp, since it was not an essential package for me.

[NenadBojkovski]

OK, after some days spent on this issue I think I found out where this issue is coming from...
The issue is that in the binding.gyp of the packages I tested with @node-rt-win10-rs4/windows.services.store and @node-rt-win10-rs4/windows.devices.geolocation there is /ZW compiler option being configured which is not compatible with -std:c++20 standard. When I tried setting the older standard e.g. -std:c++14, then the Error C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1 was fixed but my node-gyp was complaining about nodejs needing -std:c++20 standard, so it was kind of a deadlock.

Then I downgraded everything:
node v.16.0.2
npm v8.19.4
node-gyp v9.0.0
python 3.8.10
VS 2019 BuildTools

then I was able to compile the modules.

[cclauss]

• Modernize node version matrix Automattic/node-canvas#2465 (comment)