Build defaults to x86 on a x64 Windows machine. How to force an x64 build?

[jsoneaday]

• Node Version: 18
• Platform: Windows
• Compiler: cl
• Module: Custom module

My gyp build is defaulting to x86 despite my Windows machine being a x64 machine.

I tried passing -march=x86_64 and cflags=-m64 but nothing changes. If you look at the log you will see that cl.exe is using HostX64/x86. Here's my binding.gyp file too.
{
'targets': [
{
'target_name': 'keyring-go',
'sources': [ 'src/keyring.cc' ],
'include_dirs': ["<!@(node -p "require('node-addon-api').include")"],
'dependencies': ["<!(node -p "require('node-addon-api').gyp")"],
'cflags!': [ '-fno-exceptions' ],
'cflags_cc!': [ '-fno-exceptions' ],
'xcode_settings': {
'GCC_ENABLE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS': 'YES',
'CLANG_CXX_LIBRARY': 'libc++',
'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET': '12'
},
'msvs_settings': {
'VCCLCompilerTool': {
'ExceptionHandling': 1,
'RuntimeLibrary': 2
},
},
'conditions': [
['OS=="win"', {
'cflags': [
'-m64'
],
'defines': [
'_MSC_VER=1935',
],
'sources': [ 'src/c_build/win/keyring.cc' ],
"libraries": [
"<!(cd)/keyring.dll"
],
}]
]
}
]
}

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gyp info spawn args   'C:\\Users\\dharr\\philabs\\keyring-go\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\gyp\\gyp_main.py',
gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-f',
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gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=C:\\Users\\dharr\\philabs\\keyring-go\\node_modules\\node-gyp',
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gyp info spawn args   'C:\\Users\\dharr\\philabs\\keyring-go\\build',
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Warning: Missing input files:
C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\..\src\c_build\win\keyring.cc
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Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "-m" switch.
Build started 3/9/2023 9:02:42 AM.
Included response file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.rsp

Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\binding.sln" on node 1 (default targets).
ValidateSolutionConfiguration:
  Building solution configuration "Release|Win32".
Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\binding.sln" (1) is building "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj.metaproj" (2) on node 1 (default targets).
Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj.metaproj" (2) is building "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\node_modules\node-addon-api\src\nothing.vcxproj" (3) on node 1 (default targets
).
InitializeBuildStatus:
  Creating "Release\obj\nothing\nothing.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
ClCompile:
  All outputs are up-to-date.
  All outputs are up-to-date.
Lib:
  All outputs are up-to-date.
  nothing.vcxproj -> C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\Release\\nothing.lib
FinalizeBuildStatus:
  Deleting file "Release\obj\nothing\nothing.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild".
  Touching "Release\obj\nothing\nothing.tlog\nothing.lastbuildstate".
Done Building Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\node_modules\node-addon-api\src\nothing.vcxproj" (default targets).

Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj.metaproj" (2) is building "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj" (4) on node 1 (default targets).
InitializeBuildStatus:
  Touching "Release\obj\keyring-go\keyring-go.tlog\unsuccessfulbuild".
ClCompile:
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.35.32215\bin\HostX64\x86\CL.exe /c /I"C:\Users\dharr\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\include\node" /I"C:\Users\dharr\AppData\Loc
  al\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\src" /I"C:\Users\dharr\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\deps\openssl\config" /I"C:\Users\dharr\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\deps\openssl\openssl\include" /I"C:\Users\dh
  arr\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\deps\uv\include" /I"C:\Users\dharr\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\deps\zlib" /I"C:\Users\dharr\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\18.15.0\deps\v8\include" /I"C:\User
  s\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\node_modules\node-addon-api" /Z7 /nologo /W3 /WX- /diagnostics:column /MP /Ox /Ob2 /Oi /Ot /Oy /GL /D "NODE_GYP_MODULE_NAME=keyring-go" /D USING_UV_SHARED=1 /D USING_V8_SHARED=1 /
  D V8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=1 /D V8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS /D V8_IMMINENT_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS /D _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 /D WIN32 /D _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /D _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE /D _HAS_EXCEPTIONS=0
  /D OPENSSL_NO_PINSHARED /D OPENSSL_THREADS /D _MSC_VER=1935 /D BUILDING_NODE_EXTENSION /D "HOST_BINARY=\"node.exe\"" /D _WINDLL /GF /Gm- /EHsc /MT /GS /Gy /fp:precise /Zc:wchar_t /Zc:forScope /Zc:inline /GR
  - /Fo"Release\obj\keyring-go\\src\keyring.obj" /Fd"Release\obj\keyring-go\vc143.pdb" /external:W3 /Gd /TP /wd4351 /wd4355 /wd4800 /wd4251 /wd4275 /wd4244 /wd4267 /analyze- /FC /errorReport:queue /Zc:__cplus
  plus -std:c++17 ..\src\keyring.cc
  keyring.cc
C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\cgo-gcc-export-header-prolog(31,82): error C2118: negative subscript [C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj]
Done Building Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.

Done Building Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj.metaproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.

Done Building Project "C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\binding.sln" (default targets) -- FAILED.


Build FAILED.

"C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\binding.sln" (default target) (1) ->
"C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj.metaproj" (default target) (2) ->
"C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj" (default target) (4) ->
(ClCompile target) ->
  C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\cgo-gcc-export-header-prolog(31,82): error C2118: negative subscript [C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj]

    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.90
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:203:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.22621
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\dharr\\philabs\\keyring-go\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "configure" "build" "--verbose"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go
gyp ERR! node -v v18.15.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.3.1
gyp ERR! not ok

[cclauss]

C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\cgo-gcc-export-header-prolog(31,82):
error C2118: negative subscript [C:\Users\dharr\philabs\keyring-go\build\keyring-go.vcxproj]

[jsoneaday]

For those who need it, I found the defining the flag CXX=<path to x64 cl.exe> helped. This forces the use of target x64 to build and gets rid of the negative subscript error.