nodejs: node-gyp rebuild - Access is denied

I am trying to install nodetime module to profile my nodejs app..

When i run > npm install nodetime the files are downloaded. but when node-gyp rebuild runs.

I get the following error.

Command failed: CreateProcessW: Access is denied

The same thing happens, when i try to download v8-profiler.

Nodejs ver: 0.8.15

node-gyp: 0.7.1

I have tried this on both my dev machine that runs window 7 and on windows server 2008 where this app will be hosted..

Any help is appreciated. Please let me know if more explanation is required

Update:

Sorry I had ignored this post for a while.. Had a chat with someone I assume is the author of nodetime and here are the things required for nodetime to run on Windows.

  • Python version 2.7

  • If on windows the PATH environment variable for python should include python.exe Eg: C:\Python27\Python.exe

  • It requires CPP compilers that come with Visual C++ Express edition and Windows 7 64-bit SDK (SDK compiler is required for 64-bit version of nodejs).

Hope this helps.

Try just set PATH=C:\Python27;%PATH%

DO NOT set PYTHON variable (check that its not set on your machine).

I had incorrectly set the PYTHON variable some time ago - which then caused me this headache for ages until I managed to figure out what was wrong.