Native rebuilds under Windows (something between question and tip)

[pklaschka]

Alright. After a few (more) minutes of debugging, I've finally solved a problem with electron-rebuild on Windows 10, version v15.3.0, npm version v6.14.7.

I got a lot of syntax errors and other problems using the serialport library (when running electron-rebuild).

The only thing I really remember is that it tried running some MSBuild.exe process that then detected syntax errors where apparently, there were none.

What solved it for me (having previously installed Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition) was following the following line:

• Launch cmd, npm config set msvs_version 2017

from the node-gyp README.

After that, everything worked fine.

(just wanted to put this out here, maybe it'll help somebody 😉 )