windows 7 cygwin64 installation, Make fails at tools/gyp_node.py

[buzzbo]

Trying to compile on Cygwin64. Am I missing a dependency or something?

/home/me/git/node$ make

...sometime later

/usr/bin/python tools/gyp_node.py -f make
gyp: name 'MSVS_VERSION' is not defined while evaluating condition 'MSVS_VERSION < "2015"' in /home/me/git/node/deps/uv/uv.gyp
gyp: name 'MSVS_VERSION' is not defined while evaluating condition '(OS=="win" and MSVS_VERSION>="2012") or llvm_version>="3.3" or gas_version>="2.23"' in /home/me/git/node/deps/openssl/openssl.gyp
Makefile:53: recipe for target 'out/Makefile' failed
make: *** [out/Makefile] Error 1

[mscdex]

As far as I know, cygwin isn't really supported at least as far as compiling goes. You will need to use vcbuild.bat and have the MSVC compiler installed.

[silverwind]

Cygwin is currently unsupported and even if you get it to compile, process.platform will be win32 which results in a lot of wrong assumptions all over the code base. I suggest to just compile a native Windows build and use something like alias node='cmd /c node' inside your Cygwin shell to let it to run outside the Cygwin environment (same for npm).

Of course, if someone feels strong about supporting Cygwin, we're open for pull requests. It might be quite a bit of work, though!

[aLoyalStudent]

have you get the answer?I have the same error.

[kirkins]

would also appreciate a solution to this.

[silverwind]

As said, it's currently an unsupported platform, but we're of course open to low-impact patches that fix the Cygwin build.