node.bcrypt.js: Can't build via npm: gyp failed with exit code 1

I am using

Windows 8.1
node v0.12.2
npm 2.7.4

I was installing bcrypt via cmd (admin) and I got following errors.

gyp: binding.gyp not found (cwd: C:\Windows\system32\node_modules\bcrypt) while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:343:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1074:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.3.9600
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Windows\system32\node_modules\bcrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.3
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "bcrypt"
npm ERR! node v0.12.2
npm ERR! npm  v2.7.4
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! bcrypt@0.8.2 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the bcrypt@0.8.2 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the bcrypt package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls bcrypt
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\Windows\system32\npm-debug.log

I also uses

Visual Studio 2013

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 26 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

rm -rf ~/.node-gyp/ rm -r node_modules/.bin/; rm -r build/ npm install bcrypt

+41

hernanifernandes-luizalabs on Dec 2, 2016

This was probably the most painful issue I’ve ever had to deal with…

Install Visual Studio Community 2013 (not 2015)…

jd-carroll on Aug 30, 2015

NB - upgrading node is not a silver bullet. As you’ll likely run into issues where older repos require older dependencies forcing you to roll back / downgrade. With node version manager / nvm you can easily switch. Nvm use ‘1.0.0’

johndpope on Jul 5, 2018

I had a similar issue when running npm update. The output had this in it as well.

Downloading binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v3.13.1/darwin-x64-67_binding.node
Cannot download "https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v3.13.1/darwin-x64-67_binding.node": 

HTTP error 404 Not Found

I ran the command npm install node-sass now npm update and npm install work fine and I no longer get gyp ERR!

Brian-Koscielniak on Apr 3, 2019

FWIW, I managed to get it to work in Ubuntu. Based on this line:

gyp_main.py: error: no such option: --no-parallel

I went into the node-gyp config.js file and commented out line 316 //argv.push(‘–no-parallel’).

After doing that, it had no problem.

BarthesSimpson on May 13, 2015

I should also note that you will need to run: npm config set msvs_version 2013 --global

jd-carroll on Sep 5, 2015

for pc - you maybe able to use this @ying-yue https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows otherwise just upgrade node you seem to be using node -v v7.10.0 upgrade it - and problem will be solved.

johndpope on Jul 8, 2018