node-gyp build error windows x64

I had a similar problem. I found that this switch helped me

--msvs_version=2012

so for example

npm install --msvs_version=2012 <package>

npm config set msvs_version 2013 --global worked for me as I use VS node tools and you dont need to specify msvs_version each time you do an npm install.

I had an issue whereby npm's config (c:\Users\username\ .npmrc) has an entry msvs_version=2012 which was out of date.