Getting node-gyp to work on Windows (required for buildtools, used by mjpeg-consumer): https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/629#issuecomment-153196245 I couldn't get the 2015 build tools to work, but with 2013 already installed it worked using: set VCTargetsPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120 set VCTargetsPath12=C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120 npm config set msvs_version 2013