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

Just in case people encounter this issue again, the issue got resolved in my case when I did a

npm install -g --production windows-build-tools

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