Install fails with Visual Studio 2012

[JustinBeckwith]

Doing an 'npm install weak' doesn't appear to work on a system with Visual Studio 2012 (and not 2010) installed. NPM output:

PS C:\Users\justbe\Documents\temp> npm install weak
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/weak
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/weak
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings

> weak@0.2.1 install C:\Users\justbe\Documents\temp\node_modules\weak
> node-gyp rebuild


C:\Users\justbe\Documents\temp\node_modules\weak>node "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build,
please add the "/m" switch.
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.t
argets(35,5): error MSB8020: The builds tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Platform
Toolset = 'v100') cannot be found. To build using the v100 build tools, either
click the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then select "Update VC+
+ Projects...". Install Visual Studio 2010 to build using the Visual Studio 201
0 build tools. [C:\Users\justbe\Documents\temp\node_modules\weak\build\weakref.
vcxproj]
gyp ERR! rebuild error Error: `C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! rebuild error     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:214:23)
gyp ERR! rebuild error     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:91:17)
gyp ERR! rebuild error     at Process._handle.onexit (child_process.js:674:10)
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! weak@0.2.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! `cmd "/c" "node-gyp rebuild"` failed with 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the weak@0.2.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the weak 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 weak
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "weak"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Users\justbe\Documents\temp
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.1
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.33
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! message weak@0.2.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! message `cmd "/c" "node-gyp rebuild"` failed with 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\justbe\Documents\temp\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[agad]

Same problem on VS10 under 64x.

[TooTallNate]

As far as I know, only MSVC 2010 is supported by gyp at this time. See nodejs/node-gyp#44.

[absynce]

For those who arrive here when searching for answers to this problem, try this:

npm install --msvs_version=2012

From nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#4047.