Install fails on Windows 10 with message "Failed at the [email protected] install script"

[soumik-mukherjee]

Installation on Windows 10 fails while trying to build dependency [email protected]

Detailed Description

The [email protected] dependency of [email protected] resolves to [email protected]. Leveldown documentation indicates pre-built binaries are available for Windows, however this is probably not the case for the combination of [email protected] node v12.16.0 & Windows 10 (see here). This takes the installation to a fallback compilation step for [email protected] which will run into several compilation errors. If the fallback compilation step was triggered you would see the below in your npm install logs:

> [email protected] install C:\Users\....\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\local-npm\node_modules\leveldown
> prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.16.0 runtime=node arch=x64 platform=win32)

Context

Possible Implementation

The latest release of pouchdb will resolve to [email protected] which has the required pre-built binaries for Windows and node v12 and will avoid the fallback compilation step.

Your Environment

• Version used: [email protected]
• Environment name and version (e.g. PHP 5.4 on nginx 1.9.1): Node v12.16.0
• Server type and version: NA
• Operating System and version: Windows_NT 10.0.18362
• Link to your project: