If this is a mac machine (OSX) here is what you can do use terminal xcode-select –print-path then remove installed version sudo rm -r -f /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools and reinstall xcode-select –install that should fix the problem Ref: gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected macOS Catalina
For those that still run into errors after installing a VS with Windows SDK and trying Besrl’s solution, in particular node-gyp failing with Error MSB4019: The imported project “X:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props” was not found, Try running the npm install commands from a MSVS command prompt. Find it at Start menu > Microsoft Visual Studio 201X > Visual … Read more
The answer below stands for a manual installation, but there is a much simpler way : the automatic install. Open Powershell as admin and run npm install -g windows-build-tools. The install takes time but it worked like a charm for me !
I had a similar problem. I found that this switch helped me –msvs_version=2012 so for example npm install –msvs_version=2012 <package>
Even though you have them installed (my case), but by upgrading to Catalina (10.15.*) you can get this error (my case 🙂 ). Therefore, simply installing wouldn’t help as you will get an error that they are already installed. Therefore you need to hopefully just (I) reset the tool or in worse case (II) uninstall … Read more
I had a similar problem. I found that this switch helped me –msvs_version=2012 so for example npm install –msvs_version=2012 <package>
Try that – will set it globally: npm config set msvs_version 2012 –global
so this happened to me on windows recently. I fix it by following the following steps using a PowerShell with admin privileges: delete node_modulesfolder running npm install –global windows-build-tools with administrative privilege. (in my case need restart – and restart without ask!!!) reinstalling node modules or node-sass with npm install