I got this error when trying to install a node.js package that wanted to build some associated .cc files with the Visual Studio 2010 compiler (v100 build tools). I haven’t had Visual Studio 2010 installed on my machine since Visual Studio 2012 came out, and really didn’t want to reinstall it.
It turns out that the solution to this is quite simple. You simply need to add the following argument to your install command.
--msvs_version=2013Your install command will therefore look like this.
npm install [pkg] -S --msvs_version=2013