vcbuild fails with non-descriptive error when the registry has stale keys

[seishun]

• Version: master
• Platform: Windows 10 64-bit
• Subsystem: build

When I run vcbuild or vcbuild vs2017, it results in the following output:

Looking for Visual Studio 2017
Found MSVS version 15.0
C:\Python27\python.exe configure --dest-cpu=x64 --tag=
creating icu_config.gypi
* Using ICU in deps/icu-small
creating icu_config.gypi
{ 'target_defaults': { 'cflags': [],
 'default_configuration': 'Release',
 'defines': [],
 'include_dirs': [],
 'libraries': []},
 'variables': { 'asan': 0,
 'coverage': 'false',
 'debug_devtools': 'node',
 'force_dynamic_crt': 0,
 'host_arch': 'x64',
 'icu_data_file': 'icudt59l.dat',
 'icu_data_in': '..\\..\\deps/icu-small\\source/data/in\\icudt59l.dat',
 'icu_endianness': 'l',
 'icu_gyp_path': 'tools/icu/icu-generic.gyp',
 'icu_locales': 'en,root',
 'icu_path': 'deps/icu-small',
 'icu_small': 'true',
 'icu_ver_major': '59',
 'node_byteorder': 'little',
 'node_enable_d8': 'false',
 'node_enable_v8_vtunejit': 'false',
 'node_install_npm': 'true',
 'node_module_version': 56,
 'node_no_browser_globals': 'false',
 'node_prefix': '/usr/local',
 'node_release_urlbase': '',
 'node_shared': 'false',
 'node_shared_cares': 'false',
 'node_shared_http_parser': 'false',
 'node_shared_libuv': 'false',
 'node_shared_openssl': 'false',
 'node_shared_zlib': 'false',
 'node_tag': '',
 'node_use_bundled_v8': 'true',
 'node_use_dtrace': 'false',
 'node_use_etw': 'true',
 'node_use_lttng': 'false',
 'node_use_openssl': 'true',
 'node_use_perfctr': 'true',
 'node_use_v8_platform': 'true',
 'node_without_node_options': 'false',
 'openssl_fips': '',
 'openssl_no_asm': 0,
 'shlib_suffix': 'so.56',
 'target_arch': 'x64',
 'v8_enable_gdbjit': 0,
 'v8_enable_i18n_support': 1,
 'v8_enable_inspector': 1,
 'v8_no_strict_aliasing': 1,
 'v8_optimized_debug': 0,
 'v8_promise_internal_field_count': 1,
 'v8_random_seed': 0,
 'v8_use_snapshot': 'true',
 'want_separate_host_toolset': 0,
 'want_separate_host_toolset_mkpeephole': 0}}
creating config.gypi
creating config.mk
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "configure", line 1406, in <module>
 run_gyp(gyp_args)
 File "tools\gyp_node.py", line 53, in run_gyp
 rc = gyp.main(args)
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 538, in main
 return gyp_main(args)
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 523, in gyp_main
 generator.GenerateOutput(flat_list, targets, data, params)
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 2032, in GenerateOutput
 generator_flags))
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 953, in _GenerateProject
 return _GenerateMSBuildProject(project, options, version, generator_flags)
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 3378, in _GenerateMSBuildProject
 project_file_name)
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 2714, in _GetMSBuildGlobalProperties
 _ConfigWindowsTargetPlatformVersion(configuration, version))
 File "tools\gyp\pylib\gyp\generator\msvs.py", line 311, in _ConfigWindowsTargetPlatformVersion
 return names[0]
IndexError: list index out of range
Failed to create vc project files.

I have a "v10.0" key under HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows (but not under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows). The ProductVersion value under it has data "10.0.15063" even though I don't have that specific Windows 10 SDK version installed. I might have previously installed and removed it though. Consequently, I don't have a "10.0.15063" directory under C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include, so this line returns an empty list.

[kylelamse]

Get the same thing. Have no idea how to fix it.

[seishun]

You can fix it locally by removing the offending registry key.

[jaimecbernardo]

Hi, this issue was fixed in this upstream commit , which was has landed in 327077c .