diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cb94cf8d..0e6920af 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 * FEAT: support watching multiple DIRS. (https://github.com/grunt-ts/grunt-ts/pull/155/)
 * CHORE: Use lodash instead of underscore (https://github.com/TypeStrong/grunt-ts/pull/161)
 * DOCS: More sample config for gruntfile (https://github.com/TypeStrong/grunt-ts/pull/166)
+* FEAT: support for `files` in gruntfile (https://github.com/TypeStrong/grunt-ts/pull/171)
+* FIX: missing tsc.js will now fail the build step (#177)
 
 ## v1.12.0
 * ENANCEMENT: Transforms are run even when the compile option is false
diff --git a/tasks/ts.js b/tasks/ts.js
index 2aa84ba8..cedbf478 100644
--- a/tasks/ts.js
+++ b/tasks/ts.js
@@ -272,6 +272,11 @@ function pluginFn(grunt) {
                         return false;
                     }
 
+                    if (result.code === 8) {
+                        grunt.log.error('Error: Node was unable to run tsc.  Possibly it could not be found?'.red);
+                        return false;
+                    }
+
                     var isError = (result.code === 1);
 
                     // If the compilation errors contain only type errors, JS files are still
diff --git a/tasks/ts.ts b/tasks/ts.ts
index 4f2d6e6e..66d6bc3c 100644
--- a/tasks/ts.ts
+++ b/tasks/ts.ts
@@ -297,6 +297,11 @@ function pluginFn(grunt: IGrunt) {
                             return false;
                         }
 
+                        if (result.code === 8) {
+                            grunt.log.error('Error: Node was unable to run tsc.  Possibly it could not be found?'.red);
+                            return false;
+                        }
+
                         var isError = (result.code === 1);
 
                         // If the compilation errors contain only type errors, JS files are still