title: node-gyp build errors with Python version 27
body: <p>I am trying to build an expressJs app have been trying to install "restify" to make rest calls. For some reason, the node-gyp build is throwing me an error: </p>
  
  <p>Here are the versions I have: 
  1. node: v0.10.27
  2. npm: 1.4.8
  3. express: 4.0.0
  4. python: 27</p>
  
  <p>I have Windows 7 enterprise 64 bit Operating system. </p>
  
  <p>Here is the error when I am trying to install restify, I have seen similar errors when I am trying to install nodemon and several other node module packages: </p>
  
  <p>$ npm install restify</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/restify
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/restify
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bunyan
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/backoff
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/escape-regexp-component
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/csv
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/assert-plus
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/keep-alive-agent
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tunnel-agent
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/negotiator
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/http-signature
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/once
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/dtrace-provider
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-uuid
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/qs
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/verror
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/semver
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/formidable
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/deep-equal
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/spdy
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bunyan
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/assert-plus
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/backoff
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/negotiator
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/escape-regexp-component
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/csv
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/keep-alive-agent
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/once
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-uuid
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/qs
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tunnel-agent
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/semver
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/deep-equal
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/http-signature
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/dtrace-provider
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/verror
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/formidable
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/spdy
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/asn1
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/extsprintf
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype
  
  &gt; dtrace-provider@0.2.8 install c:\apps\..\..\node_modules\restify\no
  de_modules\dtrace-provider
  &gt; node-gyp rebuild
  
  
  c:\apps\...\..\restify\node_modules\dtrace-provider&gt;node
  **"c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\n
  ode-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
  Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build,
  please add the "/m" switch.
  MSBUILD : error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe".
   To fix this, 1) install the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, 2) install Microsoft Visua
  l Studio 2005 or 3) add the location of the component to the system path if it
  is installed elsewhere.  [c:\apps\trendy\trendy_ui\node_modules\restify\node_mo
  dules\dtrace-provider\build\binding.sln]**
  gyp ERR! build error
  gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe
  ` failed with exit code: 1
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\
  npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:267:23)
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
  gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:807:
  12)
  gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
  gyp ERR! command "node" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modu
  les\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
  gyp ERR! cwd c:\apps\trendy\trendy_ui\node_modules\restify\node_modules\dtrace-p
  rovider
  gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.27
  gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.13.0
  gyp ERR! not ok
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/asn1
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/extsprintf
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mv
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mv
  npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing dtrace-provider@0.2.8
  restify@2.7.0 node_modules\restify
  ├── assert-plus@0.1.5
  ├── once@1.3.0
  ├── tunnel-agent@0.4.0
  ├── deep-equal@0.0.0
  ├── mime@1.2.11
  ├── qs@0.6.6
  ├── escape-regexp-component@1.0.2
  ├── keep-alive-agent@0.0.1
  ├── lru-cache@2.3.1
  ├── negotiator@0.3.0
  ├── node-uuid@1.4.1
  ├── semver@2.2.1
  ├── backoff@2.3.0
  ├── verror@1.3.7 (extsprintf@1.0.2)
  ├── spdy@1.19.3
  ├── http-signature@0.10.0 (assert-plus@0.1.2, asn1@0.1.11, ctype@0.5.2)
  ├── formidable@1.0.14
  ├── bunyan@0.22.1 (mv@0.0.5)
  └── csv@0.3.7
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I using wrong version combinations of node, npm and express? Any help would be appreciated. </p>
  
  <p>I tried reverting to Python33, then I get an error message stating that node-gyp only supports python versions between2.5 - 3.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks  </p>