Error installing latest beta on Windows (weak compilation error)

[pleunv]

Installing the latest beta (21.3.0-beta.11 at time of writing) gives me a compile error during install. Seems to be originating from the weak dependency which is used in jest-leak-detector. Case of missing windows binaries? See TooTallNate/node-weak#22.
Getting compilation working on Windows tends to be a bit of a minefield that I've been trying to avoid so far as it's a common source of "works on my machine" problems within a team, I'd prefer to keep it that way. I'm not sure what your stance is on the matter.

Full log:

warning "jest > jest-cli > jest-environment-jsdom > jsdom > request-promise-native > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "request@^2.34".
[5/5] Building fresh packages...
[1/1] ⠈ weak: TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "CL.exe". The system cannot find the file specified.
[-/1] ⠁ waiting...
[-/1] ⠁ waiting...
[-/1] ⠁ waiting...
error C:\Projects\cs-4.0\client\cs-apps\packages\cs-app\node_modules\weak: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node-gyp rebuild
Arguments:
Directory: C:\Projects\cs-4.0\client\cs-apps\packages\cs-app\node_modules\weak
Output:
C:\Projects\cs-4.0\client\cs-apps\packages\cs-app\node_modules\weak {git}{hg}
{lamb} if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Tools\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "" rebuild )
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | x64
gyp info spawn C:\Tools\Python27\python.EXE
gyp info spawn args [ 'C:\\Users\\Pleun\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v8.9.1\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\gyp\\gyp_main.py',
gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-f',
gyp info spawn args   'msvs',
gyp info spawn args   '-G',
gyp info spawn args   'msvs_version=auto',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   'C:\\Projects\\cs-4.0\\client\\cs-apps\\packages\\cs-app\\node_modules\\weak\\build\\config.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   'C:\\Users\\Pleun\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v8.9.1\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\addon.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   'C:\\Users\\Pleun\\.node-gyp\\8.9.1\\include\\node\\common.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=C:\\Users\\Pleun\\.node-gyp\\8.9.1',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=C:\\Users\\Pleun\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v8.9.1\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=C:\\Users\\Pleun\\.node-gyp\\8.9.1\\<(target_arch)\\node.lib',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=C:\\Projects\\cs-4.0\\client\\cs-apps\\packages\\cs-app\\node_modules\\weak',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
gyp info spawn args   'C:\\Projects\\cs-4.0\\client\\cs-apps\\packages\\cs-app\\node_modules\\weak\\build',
gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.' ]
gyp info spawn C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe
gyp info spawn args [ 'build/binding.sln',
gyp info spawn args   '/clp:Verbosity=minimal',
gyp info spawn args   '/nologo',
gyp info spawn args   '/p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64' ]
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
TRACKER : error TRK0005: Failed to locate: "CL.exe". The system cannot find the file specified. [C:\Projects\cs-4.0\client\cs-apps\packages\cs-app\node_modules\weak\build\weakref.vcxproj]


gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\Pleun\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v8.9.1\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:258:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:198:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.16299
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Tools\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Tools\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Projects\cs-4.0\client\cs-apps\packages\cs-app\node_modules\weak

[pleunv]

Fwiw, neither manually installing C++ redistributables nor npm i -g windows-build-tools seems to work.

[SimenB]

This is fixed in #4984.

@cpojer mind tagging another beta with it?

[cpojer]

Will do later today.

[nasreddineskandrani]

just in case
to get it to work i had to do:

$ npm install --global windows-build-tools
$ yarn config set msvs_version 2017 --global

*care in the futur you may need to update the 2017 from second command to a newer version.

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