Brain.js: npm install brain.js on Windows failure

[timendez]

Meme

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_What_ is wrong?

npm install brain.js outputs:

$ npm install brain.js
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported

> [email protected] install C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl
> prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=11.5.0 runtime=node arch=ia32 libc= platform=win32)

C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
Warning: Missing input files:
C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl\deps\windows\dll\ia32\d3dcompiler_47.dll
C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl\deps\windows\dll\ia32\libEGL.dll
C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl\deps\windows\dll\ia32\libGLESv2.dll
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl\build\webgl.vcxproj(20,3): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:254:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\tmendez\Code\UpsellTraining\node_modules\gl
gyp ERR! node -v v11.5.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\tmendez\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-11-03T00_43_18_982Z-debug.log

_Where_ does it happen?

In the git bash environment, when running npm install brain.js at the root of my project.

_How_ do we replicate the issue?

• Be on Windows
• Install Python 2.7
• Install Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools 2015
• run in cmd: npm config set msvs_version 2015
• run in cmd: npm config set python python2.7
• Run npm install brain.js

Expected behavior (i.e. solution)

Brain.js should install successfully

Version information

Nodejs: v11.5.0

Brain.js: @latest

_How_ important is this (1-5)?

4, can't run on Windows (but have had no problems on OSX)

Other Comments

I've tried python 3.9 and microsoft build tools 2017 as well, to no avail.

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[Nelias]

It does install properly in my Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 with Python 2.7. What version of Windows is it, 64 or 32 bit? It looks like a problem with node-gyp in Visual Studio Build Tools 2015 rather than brain.js library itself or [email protected] module.

[timendez]

Windows 10 Enterprise 64 bit. I tried reinstalling visual studio build tools 2015, 2017, and 2019 to no avail unfortunately.