Installing mdns on Windows 7, node-gyp rebuild fails.

[MichelPaus]

Hello,

I've been trying to get a Meteor install running, but it keeps on breaking while updating mdns dependencies.
More specifically on node-gyp rebuild
I get the following log output:

C:\xampp\htdocs\Github\panini>meteor
[[[[[ C:\xampp\htdocs\Github\panini ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
soixantecircuits:mdns: updating npm dependencies -- mdns...
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No
description
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No
repository field.
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No
README data
gypnpm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv
"C:\\Users\\Michiel\\AppData\\Local\\.meteor\\packages\\meteor-tool\\1.1.3\\mt-o
s.windows.x86_32\\dev_bundle\\bin\\\\node.exe"
"C:\\Users\\Michiel\\AppData\\Local\\.meteor\\packages\\meteor-tool\\1.1.3\\mt-o
s.windows.x86_32\\dev_bundle\\bin\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js"
"install"
npm ERR! node v0.10.36
npm ERR! npm  v2.7.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 7
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the mdns 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 mdns
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

=> Errors prevented startup:

While building package soixantecircuits:mdns:
error: couldn't install npm packages from npm-shrinkwrap

=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.  

The soixantecircuits:mdns package is simply a wrapper around mdns, calling that package.

Thank you for your help

[y-lohse]

Do you meet the requirements for node-gyp? The yare a bit extensive on Windows.

[MichelPaus]

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that.
Was struggling for a while already.

I do believe I did most of these things.

• installed and coupled python 2.7 instead v.3
• Got Bonjour SDK
• Installed VS 2010 Express
• Installed 64bit SDK and compiler update: SDK 7.1

I'm not sure if node-gyp picks up the right version of Visual Studio. My log output doesn't give any errors regarding that, as other people do seem to get. This could mean node-gyp plays nicely with Visual Studio, or not at all..
I don't know how to test this?

[y-lohse]

Yeah that was going to be my second question. I'm also on WIndows 7 and whenever I want to compile node modules with node-gyp, I need to use the console bundled with VisualStudio instead of the regular one, as it has access to extra variables.
It's located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat or whatever the path to your VS installation is. Maybe you can try installing mdns using that console, see if that works better.

[MichelPaus]

I uninstalled VS2010 and then installed Visual Studio 2013 Express.
Using vcvarsall.bat, like you recommended, mdns and node-gyp global install went flawlessly :)
Thanks alot!

Still struggling do get my Meteor install up and running though..

[happyiphone]

Thank so much for this, I've been struggling with this problem for a few hours. By using the VS shell it worked just fine.

[davidmurdoch]

Hopefully this will be a time saver for someone else (even though this is already mentioned in the install section)...

Install was failing for me on Windows 10 because the BONJOUR_SDK_HOME environment variable wasn't available in the vcvarsall.bat command prompt (despite it being in listed in Windows' Environment Variables -> System variables). I had to manually set it in the vcvarsall.bat cmd prompt by running $env:BONJOUR_SDK_HOME = "C:\Program Files\Bonjour SDK\" before running npm install mdns.

System Info:

• Bonjour SDK 3.0
• Windows 10
• Python v2.7.10
• node-gyp v3.3.1
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (Visual C++ packages installed)
• npm 3.5.3
• node 5.4.1

[akshay20jha]

Hello,

I've been trying to get a Meteor install running, but it keeps on breaking while updating mdns dependencies.
More specifically on node-gyp rebuild
I get the following log output:

C:\xampp\htdocs\Github\panini>meteor
[[[[[ C:\xampp\htdocs\Github\panini ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
soixantecircuits:mdns: updating npm dependencies -- mdns...
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No
description
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No
repository field.
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No
README data
gypnpm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv
"C:\\Users\\Michiel\\AppData\\Local\\.meteor\\packages\\meteor-tool\\1.1.3\\mt-o
s.windows.x86_32\\dev_bundle\\bin\\\\node.exe"
"C:\\Users\\Michiel\\AppData\\Local\\.meteor\\packages\\meteor-tool\\1.1.3\\mt-o
s.windows.x86_32\\dev_bundle\\bin\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js"
"install"
npm ERR! node v0.10.36
npm ERR! npm  v2.7.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 7
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the mdns 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 mdns
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

=> Errors prevented startup:

While building package soixantecircuits:mdns:
error: couldn't install npm packages from npm-shrinkwrap

=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.  

The soixantecircuits:mdns package is simply a wrapper around mdns, calling that package.

Thank you for your help

Dear all you need is just to install Bonjour from Apple`s website and also set PATH in User variables