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[apexearth]

I had pretty much the same problem the other day when using chocolatey to install the prerequisites. I found the GTK folder didn't have any headers in it. I downloaded GTK manually and put it in C:\GTK and things started working.

[LinusU]

@megamindbrian I think that you should consider the tone you are using when posting here. You have recently made a large number of comments just complaining without trying to be constructive at all. You have also downvoted comments pointing people to the install guide for windows.

Can we get a little consistency in our dev stack from you guys. I am sick of having to go through this awful installation every single time one of you makes a change.

I don't really understand what you mean by this. What is it that we have changed?

If you want to get help from the community, I would suggest trying to use a better tone...

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Could you please try and follow the manual installation instructions for Windows?

[chearon]

We are well aware of that and if you look through the issues you would see that we are working on adding prebuilds. You can npm install canvas-prebuilt right now if you want, but that might not work for your situation if canvas is a dependency of a dependency.

This is an open source project, nobody owes you anything.

[chearon]

I don't know why you keep saying that, the instructions tell you to unzip to C:\GTK. Can you be more specific?

[LinusU]

@megamindbrian

You owe it to yourself.

What do you mean with this?

[apexearth]

I didn't find these instructions confusing, and once the new step 2 was added to "Install with Chocolatey" I think it should work for most users.

[apexearth]

I ran Chocolatey with elevated permissions. I believe Chocolatey notified me on it's own that I needed to run it from an elevated prompt.
The npm install for canvas did not need anything special. No sudo, no global, no elevation...

[Tarabass]

Okay, I'm a bit confused. I installed gyp (global using npm), gtk v2 (unzipped it to c:\gtk) and turbo (used the 64bit installer) but it still it isn't working.

92 verbose stack Error: [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
92 verbose stack Exit status 1

It keeps nagging about python not found. Even when I installed python manually and set the env variable by hand. A lot of hassle for installing a npm package. I hope I can remember what I wanted to do with it :P

Are there solutions that work, or alternatives for node-canvas maybe?

[christian-bromann]

Check out installation guidelines here: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation

[Tarabass]

Thx! Will try :)

Edit:
Downgraded Python to version 2 and everything is working correctly. Thank you, Christian!

[eko24ive]

Hi guys, I think you may close this issue - we've discussed similar installation troubles on #843

[markatrosie]

@chearon's instruction link above is bad. Anyone looking for a working link can look here.

[tokarev-i-v]

Hello, guys! I had this error on installing tensorflowjs on Windows 10 using npm.
And solution is starting CMD as Admin and typing:
1. npm install -g --production windows-build-tools
2. npm install -g canvas

[Shahar-Ben-Ezra]

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev
https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Installation:-Ubuntu-and-other-Debian-based-systems

[pittersnider]

I hate having to agree with @briancullinan but installing this is always an awful experience.

[quangnv205]

Could you try installing the latest version, 2.3.0
It work for me