Installing on Windows

[excelthoughts]

Hi

Does anyone know what the the minimum install requirements for Windows are?

I followed instructions on https://evothings.com/doc/build/cordova-install-windows.html
to get the cordova-hot-code-push to run on my dev pc successfully. Note: that Python was not installed in any step.

I don't think that I need to install all of that just to be able to run
cordova-hcp build [www_directory]

Somebody thought that I should only have to to install nodejs, but then the npm installer throws an error saying that Python is not installed.

I have a fresh Windows install, have installed nodejs, Git, Cordova, still complains about Python not installed.

any ideas?

[excelthoughts]

Since that I have found https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp

I'm on Windows 7

So -

1. install nodejs
2. $ npm install -g node-gyp
3. Install Python 2.7.10 and add Environment variable
4. Install Visual Studio 2013

Does this seem like a minimum install?

[nikDemyankov]

Hi,

Don't have a windows machine, so can't really suggest anything, sorry :(

But feels like the setup you gave in the last post should be enough. Although, don't think that you need Visual Studio.

For cordova-hcp - if you can't make it to install because of the Python - you can skip it. As a workaround for building chcp.manifest file you can take code from https://github.com/nordnet/cordova-hot-code-push-cli/blob/master/src/build.js and execute it. It does exactly that.

[nikDemyankov]

Also, maybe this will help: https://mlusiak.com/2013/12/22/fixing-failing-npm-packages-on-windows/ . It seems like you just need to install Python 2.7 and add Environment variable.

[swbradshaw]

I have the same problem. I've installed Python 2.7 and set the Environment variable. I get past the Python issue, and I get past the Visual Studio compiler issue (also a requirement), but now it won't install the leveldown package. A quick search shows that this can't be installed from NPM on Windows.

@nikDemyankov I took your build.js and tried executing that with Node, and I get an error:

        result.sort((a, b) => {
                           ^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token =>
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:443:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3

[nikDemyankov]

@swbradshaw my guess is that you took src/build.js. Try to use dist/build.js. Difference between them is that src/ uses ES6 syntax, while dist/ - is src/ code, translated into ES5.

[nikDemyankov]

@swbradshaw not sure, that leveldown package is needed for CLI client, will check it out and if possible - remove it from the dependencies and re-publish the package.

[nikDemyankov]

@swbradshaw Removed that package from dependencies, uploaded v1.1.1 of CLI client on npm. Hope it will work for you.

[swbradshaw]

@nikDemyankov I took the src/build.js you linked to in your comment. I tried the dist/build.js and got another error:

module.js:338
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'prompt'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at C:\Projects\ionic\goodsissue\build.js:5:16
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Projects\ionic\goodsissue\build.js:120:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)

So I installed prompt, fs-extra, async, q, loadash, recursive-readdir, hidefile, and NOW it runs, but doesn't output anything.

I'm running C:\Project\>node build.js www

[swbradshaw]

1.1.1 is still trying to install leveldown. :-( I'm going to see if I can find out the cause.

[swbradshaw]

@nikDemyankov I did a verbose output from the install and saw the following:

npm info preinstall s3-sync-aws@1.1.0
npm WARN peerDependencies The peer dependency level@~1.3.0 included from s3-sync-aws will no
npm WARN peerDependencies longer be automatically installed to fulfill the peerDependency 
npm WARN peerDependencies in npm 3+. Your application will need to depend on it explicitly.

I was running npm 2.15.1 (stable NodeJS), so it was installing leveldown.

I just upgraded to npm 3.8.6, and now it installs correctly.

[nikDemyankov]

@swbradshaw So, now CLI client is installed and working properly. Just needed to upgrade Node version?

[swbradshaw]

@nikDemyankov Correct. CLI client requres Python and npm 3+ to install on Windows. Thank you for the help!

[nikDemyankov]

Great, thanks!

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