Christian Clauss

@macamhi Your issue is https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/tree/master/docs#node-sass-is-deprecated which is different than the original issue.

> gyp info using [email protected] Please upgrade to v8.4.1 or later. > gyp info find Python using Python version 2.7.18 Python 2 died on 1/1/2020 which was 751 days ago...

Can this issue be closed?

What small issue?

From 2016: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/675 -- `file links out of the package` https://www.npmjs.com/package/asar-dev > Purpose of this package is to offer a solution to the issue https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/675. Error: /Users/user1/myapp/node_modules/myapp-lib: file links out...

I would recommend reading thru https://github.com/txoof/codesign (which is written in Python) and then opening an issue on that repo if you still do not have a resolution.

Well explained. I now understand. I think your pull request would be the right path forward. Let's try to remove the absolute symlinks in node_modules and see where that takes...

There are 14 https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/labels/ffi-napi issues on this repo. Perhaps hints for a solution could be found by studying them.

@VadimCiv Your issue is unrelated to the Windows-based issue of the original post. > npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] The current version of this repo is v8.3.0. https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/releases *...

In `cmd`, did you do [`npm config set msvs_version 2017`](https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows) ?