Building node v4.0.0 on windows does not have npm

[Junkern]

I am building node v4.0.0 in windows with vcbuild nosign. Node itself is working perfectly, I noticed I am missing all the npm stuff (npm install -g xxxx is not working). Is this working as intended? If so, how can I get npm up and running? Before anyone asks, due to different circumstances I am fixed on v4.0.0 (f9f8378)

[jasnell]

Just running vcbuild nosign only builds the necessary artifacts, it does not install them into your local environment. There's an option to generate an installer with vcbuild. Running that installer ought to include the npm utility.

Also, fwiw, the better place to ask questions like this is on the http://github.com/nodejs/help repo (I know that's not obvious, unfortunately).

[joaocgreis]

@Junkern for a quick work around to use npm directly with the compiled node, you can copy deps\npm to Release\node_modules (creating Release\node_modules\npm) and everything from inside deps\npm\bin directly to Release (so that Release\npm.cmd exists).

[Junkern]

I eventually figured that out, aswell. Thank you for coming back, tough!