node-gyp related installation issue on Windows #27
Description
Attempting to install on Windows 10 with npm install cryptonight-hashing fails with the following output.
C:\xxxxxxxxx\node_modules\cryptonight-hashing>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\no de-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\no de-gyp.js" rebuild ) The system cannot find the path specified. gyp: Call to 'uname -a \| grep "aarch64" >/dev/null && echo "-march=armv8-a+crypto -flax-vector-conversi ons -DXMRIG_ARM=1" \|\| (uname -a \| grep "armv7" >/dev/null && echo "-mfpu=neon -flax-vector-conversions -DXMRIG_ARM=1" \|\| echo "-march=native")' returned exit status 255 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: gypfailed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node -gyp\lib\configure.js:345:16) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763 gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\n ode_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd D:\windowscoin\node_modules\cryptonight-hashing gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.3 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 (node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"}) npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! cryptonight-hashing@8.0.1 install:node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the cryptonight-hashing@8.0.1 install script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. ---
I have checked that node-gyp is indeed sane, and built bcrypt and several other libraries to test this. I have already tried the fixes in this thread: nodejs/node-gyp#1195 It seems to be an issue with the code.