Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\python.exe

Question

node-gyp rebuild


C:\Users\ASUS-X441M\Desktop\ReadMemoryJS\node_modules\memoryjs>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "D:\Program Files\NodeJS\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "D:\Program Files\NodeJS\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\python.exe -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack                       ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:299:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:193:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:999:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:266:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.18363
gyp ERR! command "D:\\Program Files\\NodeJS\\node.exe" "D:\\Program Files\\NodeJS\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\ASUS-X441M\Desktop\ReadMemoryJS\node_modules\memoryjs
gyp ERR! node -v v11.15.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of eslint@^4.9.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of stream-browserify@* but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

How i fix this? i don't know what to do. help me

i want to install memoryjs.

NodeJS Version : v11.15.0

NPM Version: v6.7.0

OS: Windows 10 Enterpiese

Text Editor: VSCode

Answer 1

You are running Python 3.8 but that command is not valid in Python 3. It is valid in Python 2.

$ python2 -c 'import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];'
2.7.15
$ python3 -c 'import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];'
  File "<string>", line 1
    import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
$ 

Python 2 is old and unsupported and you should not use it. I notice you are also using Node.js 11 which is also unsupported (and may have used/required Python 2 in parts of its build chain).

So you have at least two options: Try specifying a Python 2 executable in your PYTHON environment variable or update to a supported version of Node.js. (As of this writing, Node.js 14 is the most recent LTS and is a good choice, all other things being equal.) I would recommend updating Node.js over using Python 2, but you can certainly try both.