Meteor can't run gcloud on server side - meteor

Question

I'm building a small application that allows you to upload files, store them in the cloud and analyze them with Google Cloud Vision API.
I got the uploading and storing working now, I use firebase for that, but when I try to run gcloud I run into some issues.
In the main.js file in server folder I run:
import gcloud from 'gcloud';
console.log('gcloud', gcloud);
But that causes an error in the terminal:
=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
Unable to resolve some modules:
"memcpy" in /C/Users/Zino/Documents/Meteor Projects/find-it/node_modules/bytebuffer/dist/ByteBufferNB.js
(os.windows.x86_32)
If you notice problems related to these missing modules, consider running:
meteor npm install --save memcpy
My site does not load so I run:
meteor npm install --save memcpy
But then I get an error I'n can't find anything about in the internet:
node error log
I've been been trying to solve this issue for 2 days now, without luck. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

In my case, this was fixed by installing + importing specific sub-packages of google-cloud, rather than the google-cloud metapackage, which includes everything.
e.g.
$ npm install --save #google-cloud/datastore
$ npm install --save #google-cloud/storage
var config = {
projectId: 'grape-spaceship-123',
keyFilename: '/path/to/keyfile.json'
};
var datastore = require('#google-cloud/datastore')(config);
var storage = require('#google-cloud/storage')(config);

Answer 2

To expand on Windows being the culprit: The build fails at 'node-gyp configure build', which has a build dependency on Visual C++ Build Tools / Visual Studio 2015 and Python 2.7 on Windows. It can build on Windows, but is not as straightforward as building on a Unix-y system due to lack of a standard C++ toolchain. The Microsoft Node.js Guidelines for Windows, which make special mention of 'running into dreaded node-gyp issues', should have all the steps needed to get the build to work.