Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2013 and Python dependencies on Windows

Since node-v8-clone is compiled through node-gyp it may be installed on Windows only if both Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2013 and Python are installed. It forces any project that depends on node-v8-clone to depend on MSVC++ 2013. But not only them, projects which depend on these projects will transitively depend on MSVC++ 2013 (example: lookfirst/gulp-helpers).

To avoid it, could you distribute pre-compiled binaries through something like mapbox/node-pre-gyp like node-inspector/v8-debug and node-inspector/v8-profiler do.

Leaving here npm output to land Googe searches:

PS C:\work\polygon> npm install node-v8-clone
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> [email protected] install C:\work\polygon\node_modules\node-v8-clone
> node-gyp rebuild

C:\work\polygon\node_modules\node-v8-clone>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node  rebuild )                                                                                                                       
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.                                                               
MSBUILD : error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". To fix this, 1) install the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, 2) install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or 3) add the location of the component to the system path if it is installed elsewhere.  [C:\work\polygon\node_modules\node-v8-clone\build\binding.sln]               
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\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:269:23)                                            
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)                                                                                                                
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1074:12)                                                                                      
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601                                                                                                                                       
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"                                                
gyp ERR! cwd C:\work\polygon\node_modules\node-v8-clone                                                                                                                   
gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.7                                                                                                                                                  
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v2.0.1                                                                                                                                               
gyp ERR! not ok                                                                                                                                                           
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601                                                                                                                                              
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "node-v8-clone"                           
npm ERR! node v0.12.7                                                                                                                                                     
npm ERR! npm  v2.11.3                                                                                                                                                     
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE                                                                                                                                                  

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`                                                                                                                  
npm ERR! Exit status 1                                                                                                                                                    
npm ERR!                                                                                                                                                                  
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.                                                                                             
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the node-v8-clone 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 node-v8-clone                                                                                                                                   
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.