[Windows] Build Node.js from sources

• Node.js Version: git master
• OS: windows
• Scope: build

C:\node> call vcbuild.bat

Looking for Python 2.x
Looking for NASM
Looking for Visual Studio 2017
Found MSVS version 15.0
Could Not Find C:\node\.tmp_gyp_configure_stamp
Could Not Find C:\node\.gyp_configure_stamp
configure  --with-pch --dest-cpu=x64
  File "configure", line 1578
    os.chmod('config.status', 0775)
                                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid token

Why does this error occur? Is it a problem with MSVS 15.0?

[addaleax]

Your default python executable on Windows seems to be Python 3, but at this point Node.js only supports building with Python 2. Usually, there should be a more helpful error message that points this out, but since nodejs/node@074e7f8 (my bad), the 0775 token leads to an early syntax error in Python 3.

[refack]

This is a bit strange, since vcbuild.bat tried to validate it's using python2.
@djmangoo could you run the following and post the results:

set DEBUG_HELPER=1
call vcbuild.bat nobuild

Thanks.

@refack Actually, the problem was that I had messed up my own python binaries. After fixing them, the compiling process was successfull.

I see that Release folder was created after building and no errors occurred. However, now when I launch Release/node.exe it exits immediately. I can't start repl. I also tried Release/node.exe some_file.js but the file is not executed.

[gireeshpunathil]

@ghost - is this still outstanding?

[gireeshpunathil]

inactive, closing