Installing bcrypt with Windows 8 and Visual studio 2012

Okay so I was using this tutorial here.. which wanted me to use bcrypt.. I am using Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 (I have the 2010 C++ stuff installed too as TooLateNate says to on the node-gyp github. Anyway I couldn't get it running with:

npm install -d

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as bcrypt just wouldn't play ball.. but thanks to finding this thread here I managed to solve the problem with typing

npm install -d --msvs_version=2012

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So if you are having trouble with anything and you have my problem just type npm install PACKAGE --msvs_version=2012

npm install PACKAGE --msvs_version=2012

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So for bcrypt

npm install bcrypt --msvs_version=2012.

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happy trails