Node packages not building on Windows 8.1 - Missing Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props

Question

NPM packages are not building on Windows 8.1 - failing with following error,

error MSB4019: The imported project \"C:\\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props\" was not fo

Answer 1

This is the same issue as described here

NPM native builds with only Visual Studio 2013 installed

If you have a version of VS2013 installed set this environment variable before running the npm command:

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013

or for VS2012

set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2012 

background reading: https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/issues/1151