Installation error on windows 8.1

[PawandeepKaur]

node-pre-gyp giving me this error..

c:\node_modules\phash>node "c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\n ode-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. phash.cpp ..\phash.cpp(3): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pHash.h': No suc h file or directory [c:\node_modules\phash\build\pHash.vcxproj] gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_mo dules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:267:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810: 12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200 gyp ERR! command "node" "c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\nod e_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd c:\node_modules\phash gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.32 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.1 gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the phash 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 phash npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200 npm ERR! command "c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe" "c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "phash" npm ERR! cwd c:\node_modules npm ERR! node -v v0.10.32 npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! not ok code 0

[Rafi993]

this error is caused due to node-gyp. as mentioned here install node-gyp in windows first as given here then try installing the library using npm again. it will work.

[Rafi993]

@PawandeepKaur please close the issue once you get it running.

[mendeljacks]

I get the same issue, node-gyp did not help ...\node_modules\phash\phash.cpp(3): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pHash.h': No such file or directory [C:\Users...