NPM / gyp error when installing redis

Question

Full error/warning log: http://pastebin.com/xNjC4FDr

I had problem as well when I tried to install MongoDB, I have made SO question of it but, that was only warnings, so I could ignore it. But this time it's not only warnings, but also red error.

What do I have to do? Is my Nodejs messed up because I've installed Visual Studio Tools for NodeJS in the past? Or is this normal behavior? What can I do about this, I prefer not to see errors/warnings when I install something on NPM.

Answer 1

The problem is that hiredis does not support Windows currently. The link to the Windows-compatible fork in the hiredis readme seems to be outdated (last commit in 8/2013 as of this writing), so you may be out of luck.

However hiredis is not required by the redis module, it's an optional dependency that just makes parsing the redis protocol faster than the pure JavaScript parser that is bundled with redis . You may see a similar thing with other modules that have optional dependencies like this. Typically if you see the module tree outline at the end of the console output, that means the module installation was successful.