Robotjs: npm install robotjs not working

[Androiderr]

I am trying to install robotjs. For that purpose, I have nodeJS on Visual Studio Code. This the error i get.

[email protected] install C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\node_modulesrobotjs
prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.14.1 runtime=node arch=x64 libc= platform=win32)

C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\node_modulesrobotjs>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\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\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
gyp ERR! find VS
gyp ERR! find VS msvs_version not set from command line or npm config
gyp ERR! find VS VCINSTALLDIR not set, not running in VS Command Prompt
gyp ERR! find VS could not use PowerShell to find Visual Studio 2017 or newer
gyp ERR! find VS looking for Visual Studio 2015
gyp ERR! find VS - not found
gyp ERR! find VS not looking for VS2013 as it is only supported up to Node.js 8
gyp ERR! find VS
gyp ERR! find VS *******************
gyp ERR! find VS You need to install the latest version of Visual Studio
gyp ERR! find VS including the "Desktop development with C++" workload.
gyp ERR! find VS For more information consult the documentation at:
gyp ERR! find VS https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows
gyp ERR! find VS *******************
gyp ERR! find VS
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Could not find any Visual Studio installation to use
gyp ERR! stack at VisualStudioFinder.fail (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:121:47)
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:74:16
gyp ERR! stack at VisualStudioFinder.findVisualStudio2013 (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:351:14)
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:70:14
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:372:16
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\util.js:54:7
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\util.js:33:16
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:302:5)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:223:5)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.18363
gyp ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\node_modulesrobotjs
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\package.json'
npm WARN Twitter Bot No description
npm WARN Twitter Bot No repository field.
npm WARN Twitter Bot No README data
npm WARN Twitter Bot No license field.

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!
PS C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot> npm install robotjs

[email protected] install C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\node_modulesrobotjs
prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.14.1 runtime=node arch=x64 libc= platform=win32)

C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\node_modulesrobotjs>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\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\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
gyp ERR! find VS
gyp ERR! find VS msvs_version not set from command line or npm config
gyp ERR! find VS VCINSTALLDIR not set, not running in VS Command Prompt
gyp ERR! find VS could not use PowerShell to find Visual Studio 2017 or newer
gyp ERR! find VS looking for Visual Studio 2015
gyp ERR! find VS - not found
gyp ERR! find VS not looking for VS2013 as it is only supported up to Node.js 8
gyp ERR! find VS
gyp ERR! find VS *******************
gyp ERR! find VS You need to install the latest version of Visual Studio
gyp ERR! find VS including the "Desktop development with C++" workload.
gyp ERR! find VS For more information consult the documentation at:
gyp ERR! find VS https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows
gyp ERR! find VS *******************
gyp ERR! find VS
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Could not find any Visual Studio installation to use
gyp ERR! stack at VisualStudioFinder.fail (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:121:47)
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:74:16
gyp ERR! stack at VisualStudioFinder.findVisualStudio2013 (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:351:14)
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:70:14
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:372:16
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\util.js:54:7
gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\util.js:33:16
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:302:5)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:223:5)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.18363
gyp ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\node_modulesrobotjs
gyp ERR! node -v v12.14.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\awais\Documents\ScrapperProjects\Twitter Bot\package.json'
npm WARN Twitter Bot No description
npm WARN Twitter Bot No repository field.
npm WARN Twitter Bot No README data
npm WARN Twitter Bot No license field.

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.

[Offpics]

Did you follow Building section in the README?

[Sergey-Churilin]

I observe the same problem with Electron10. When modules are installed, electron-builder rebuild them and the process failed. Issue can be reproduced with my sample https://github.com/Sergey-Churilin/Electron-samples/tree/electron10-robotjs

[Tymski]

Did you follow Building section in the README?

Using the building section doesn't help at all, the build tools install, but you can't install robotjs

[Draginfable]

What finally worked for me was using the VS Build tools 2017 and having the same node version as the one that electron uses internally.