Node npm error on windows looking for tools version

javascript node.js msbuild npm windows-8.1
Dennington-bear picture Dennington-bear · Jun 12, 2014 · Viewed 26.7k times · Source

Im trying to use node and when i go to install the npm packages via 'npm install package.json'
I am currently using windows 8.1 as my os. It began when I started using redis but im not sure if it is because of redis. The error I get is

MSBUILD : error MSB4132: The tools version "2.0" is unrecognized. Available tools versions are "4.0".

The full console print out is here

If anyone has come across this error and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated

Answer

Tomas Randus picture Tomas Randus · Jan 21, 2017

Provided that you have Nodejs installed, start Windows CMD in admin mode and run the following:

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

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