Cannot install via npm for node on Windows

External question — Stellar Stack Exchange Author: Harrish Selvarajah Original post: https://stellar.stackexchange.com/questions/4380 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I'm trying to download the stellar SDK for my angular project but the npm install fails.

External answer — Stellar Stack Exchange Author: Edward Mauthe Original post: https://stellar.stackexchange.com/a/4388 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. You don't have msbuild setup with NPM If you're installing the newest version of sodium-native you need an MSBUILD here: https://github.com/sodium-friends/sodium-native/blob/9d97f1d182138e89a54248d2e70fc3d412c8443c/preinstall.js#L62