Error installing from npm on Windows 7

Node.js SDK
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The guide for installing the Node.js Couchbase library states:

On non-Windows platforms, you must have node-gyp installed and a build environment available because the Couchbase SDK module takes advantage of V8 add-on capabilities (written in C/C++). On Windows, the module comes with prebuilt libraries.

However I am getting node-gyp errors trying to install on Windows 7

> couchbase@2.0.2 install C:\projects\BasicExpressApp\node_modules\couchbase
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)


C:\projects\BasicExpressApp\node_modules\couchbase>node "C:\nodejs\node_modules\
npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build,
please add the "/m" switch.
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.t
argets(42,5): error MSB8020: The builds tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Platform
Toolset = 'v100') cannot be found. To build using the v100 build tools, either
click the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then select "Update VC+
+ Projects...". Install Visual Studio 2010 to build using the Visual Studio 201
0 build tools. [C:\projects\BasicExpressApp\node_modules\couchbase\build\deps\l
cb\cbsasl.vcxproj]

I am going to try to install the dependencies to get node-gyp working, but I wanted to let someone know that the npm install is not working as described.

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Hey brentroady,

In many cases, receiving an error as part of the install process is fine. The install is meant to attempt to perform a custom build if possible, but to fall back to the pre-built binaries included when necessary. Does you’re install of the SDK still function properly?

Cheers, Brett

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You are correct, the Couchbase library works fine even with the errors shown by npm. The reason Couchbase session handling in ExpressJS was not working was because I needed to add the connect-couchbase middleware.