Configuring Windows 10 (64-bit) for npm and node-gyp

Win10-64bit-npm.md

• Install Git for Windows
• Install Node
• Install Python 2.7.3
• Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community
• Open the command prompt as Administrator, run the following commands, then close the command prompt (a new prompt is required before the new environment variables will be available)
  • npm install -g npm
    • (Upgrades to npm v3, which no longer nests dependencies indefinitely. No more "maximum path length exceeded" errors due to the 260 character path limit in Windows, or needing to delete node_modules with rimraf.)
  • setx PYTHON C:\Python27\python.exe /m
    • (May need to change path to your custom install directory.)
• Open a new command prompt and run the following commands. If these install without errors, you have bypassed one of the most frustrating experiences for npm users on Windows.
  • npm install -g node-gyp
  • npm install -g socket.io

Thanks! This really helped for setting up my windows dev environment on my mac.

Magnificent

Holy Crap! Thank YOU!!! I've been trying to get this to work for three days now, installing various MS SDKs and Visual studio versions. The ONLY thing that worked were the steps above with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community. Someone should really address this as it seems to have been a problem for years and it will only get worse once that link above starts to fail.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT helped me out a lot as well!

Thanks a lot! Always a pain in the ass to configure this. It once took me a full week to do this!

Had a lot of trouble with this because I was trying to use the latest version of Python 3.7.3 - using 2.7.3 instead and everything worked. Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2019 Community

i spent an entire day trying to configure this and i was really going crazy. Thanks a ton Mr.

don't know what exact step helped but it's working now. thanks

This solution came at the right time! I have been struggling with it for days. Thanks a lot

Please can I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 as a replacement for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community?

Doesn't work for me, I keep getting this:

gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1

if anyone manages to install it, please mention me :(

worked for me thanks

Doesn't work for me, I keep getting this:

gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1

if anyone manages to install it, please mention me :(

Have you found solution?