Hi All, After a bit of digging around, although not officially supported by Lithium yet I've worked out the process to install and use the Lithium Community SDK natively on Windows, the process is relatively straightforward as you'll see below, however it does take a little while for the dependencies to compile. This works for Windows 7, 8 and 10: Install the latest stable version of NodeJS LTS (version 8.x) at the time of writing this post.Open Windows PowerShell as an Admin (right click and select Run as Administrator)run the following commands in powershell:npm install --production windows-build-tools (note this will take a while to complete).npm install -g gulp npm install -g lithium-sdk After you finish the steps above, close PowerShell and re-open it as a regular user and you can continue to work as normal with the typical commands.For more information see the Community SDK Documentation

If you have trouble installing the windows build tools and python from above, you can try locking the version to 1.3.2, by running this command: npm install --global --production windows-build-tools@1.3.2 Version after this from what i gathered are buggy and likely not fixed, which causes some slow installs or obscure errors. THis worked for me. Enjoy!

RobertT / charan I fixed the Primordials issue.This is caused by an incompatibility between NodeJS v12 and graceful-fs.The easiest fix is to download NVM for Windows and then run the following commands once installed:nvm install 11.15.0 nvm use 11.15.0Once your back on node 11 you should be able to run li create-project with no problems

You're my hero RobertT . Last time I did this was 2016 and this time around I couldn't get it to install properly; kept getting stuck installing the lithium plugin. Khoros support basically told me to go sort myself and that Windows isn't supported. This worked perfectly. Thank you!

Hi Allen, Looking at the error it seems it's not happy with Visual Studio when it comes to the node-gyp dependency part of the build. Visual Studio 2017 and later cause some issues unfortunately.I think I've seen this before, if I remember correctly there is a workaround. Can you try running the following command:npm install --global --production windows-build-tools --vs2015following this re-run the command to install the Lithium-SDKnpm install -g lithium-sdkHopefully that should work.

Hello everyone,I spent a good amount of hours trying to make this work, like, really, A LOT. It always threw some issues at me, whether it's the windows-build-tools or the python version.Later I've found out the lithium-sdk requires Python v2x and Node v => 4.8.4, 6.11.2 and 8.3.0. I also tried installing those versions manually too.At the end, managed to make it work in very little time by using Docker.1. This is the docker file I went with:FROM node:8.3.0 WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install -y git rsync RUN npm install gulp-cli -g RUN npm install lithium-sdk CMD /bin/bash 2. Save that as dockerfile without any extension.3. Open the command and navigate to the folder where the dockerfile was saved and rundocker build -t lithium .You can rename lithium to whatever you like.5. Run the docker builddocker run -it --rm lithiumlithium is the name you added on the previous stepWhen everything finishes, in my case, the li command was saying it's not found so I had to run npm install lithium-sdk -g --force to make it work.5. I saved that as a docker image to avoid having to run the same command again next timedocker ps to list alldocker commit $name (from docker ps) $new_name (your new name) - Example: docker commit lithium initialThat's it. After all that, I was able to work normally with the li command. To connect the container with your Visual Studio Code, you can check this article.Hopefully this can be helpful to someone out there 🙂

How to Install the Lithium Community SDK on Windows

PerBonomi
Boss
6 years ago
You're my hero RobertT . Last time I did this was 2016 and this time around I couldn't get it to install properly; kept getting stuck installing the lithium plugin. Khoros support basically told me to go sort myself and that Windows isn't supported. This worked perfectly. Thank you!
djondinium
Expert
3 years ago
Hello everyone,

I spent a good amount of hours trying to make this work, like, really, A LOT. It always threw some issues at me, whether it's the windows-build-tools or the python version.

Later I've found out the lithium-sdk requires Python v2x and Node v => 4.8.4, 6.11.2 and 8.3.0. I also tried installing those versions manually too.

At the end, managed to make it work in very little time by using Docker.

1. This is the docker file I went with:
FROM node:8.3.0 WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install -y git rsync RUN npm install gulp-cli -g RUN npm install lithium-sdk CMD /bin/bash

2. Save that as dockerfile without any extension.

3. Open the command and navigate to the folder where the dockerfile was saved and run
docker build -t lithium .
You can rename lithium to whatever you like.

5. Run the docker build
docker run -it --rm lithium
lithium is the name you added on the previous step

When everything finishes, in my case, the li command was saying it's not found so I had to run npm install lithium-sdk -g --force to make it work.

5. I saved that as a docker image to avoid having to run the same command again next time
docker ps to list all
docker commit $name (from docker ps) $new_name (your new name) - Example: docker commit lithium initial

That's it. After all that, I was able to work normally with the li command.

To connect the container with your Visual Studio Code, you can check this article.

Hopefully this can be helpful to someone out there 🙂
JavidH
Khoros Staff
2 years ago
Hello Folks,

I have created a guide for how to install the SDK on windows operating system based on the Ideas shared here. I have consolidated those as a guide.

Guide Link: https://developer.khoros.com/khoroscommunitydevdocs/docs/install-the-khoros-community-sdk-on-windows

VarunGrazitti

Boss

7 years ago

Great job Robert, thanks for sharing the information.

Happy new year!

AbhishekIlindra
Boss
7 years ago
Thank You RobertT for sharing Valuable information.

Thank You,
Abhishek

charan

Guide

5 years ago

I tried installing lithium-sdk in windows 10, windows-build-tools and gulp got installed without any issue and When i install lithium-sdk with the below command

npm install -g lithium-sdk

i am getting this below error, (note: running as administrator in power shell)

npm WARN enoent SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\watchpack\node_modules\fsevents\node_modules\yallist' -> 'C:\Users\rajakc\
AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\watchpack\node_modules\fsevents\node_modules\.yallist.DELETE'

npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! path C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\bin\li.js
npm ERR! dest C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm\li
npm ERR! EEXIST: file already exists, cmd shim 'C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\bin\li.js' -> 'C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm\li'
npm ERR! File exists: C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm\li
npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm
npm ERR! with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\rajakc\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-04-02T17_59_10_850Z-debug.log

Any solutions?

RobertT
Boss
5 years ago
charan have you used NodeJS on your machine prior to attempting to install the SDK and if so what version of NodeJS is currently installed alongside npm?
You can check this by running the following commands in powershell
node -v npm -v

If you're using NodeJS 8.3.0 and are not relying on it for anything else other than the SDK you might be able to get the SDK to install by running it with the --force flag.
npm install -g lithium-sdk --force

VikasB
Boss
7 years ago
RobertT
I am getting error when running the command
npm install -g lithium-sdk
See attached screenshot for logs. I have installed all the required things. Any help would be appreciated.
- RobertT
  Boss
  7 years ago
  VikasB
  
  It looks as if the Windows Build Tools haven't installed properly. Try running the following command in PowerShell again as administrator
  
  npm install --production windows-build-tools
  It will take a while for the build tools to install, once complete run
  npm install -g lithium-sdk
  Which should fix the issue.
  - VikasB
    Boss
    7 years ago
    RobertT
    I followed the same steps you mentioned in this thread.
    I have tried it multiple time on Powershell and cmd both(as administrator). Even reinstalled all the required things. But every time I am getting the same log.
MohammedSh
Moderator
2 years ago
Hello saikumarn

The SDK is not supported on Windows by us. Only macOS and CentOS are explicitly supported.

Please refer to this document "About the Community Plugin SDK"
irach15
Maven
2 years ago
Yes,
I ran into those issues a long time ago and I've asked Khoros to update the docs that Windows is not supported.
I'm not using SDK since I'm on Windows.
RobertT
Boss
2 years ago
There are ways to get the SDK to run on windows, it's a bit long-winded but I have the steps documented somewhere that I can share.
it does involve installing a few missing dependencies manually to get it to run and I've not tested WSL as an option which might simplify the process somewhat.
We've used the SDK on windows without any issues here. If you're interested in the steps let me know and I'll pull together a guide to share.
murnimaduasli
Contributor
6 years ago
I have this problem
Thanks
Denizbaby
Guide
6 years ago
Hi All,
Thanks for the information RobertT . I am getting some issues while executing package-plugin command. Successfully installed and downloaded the projects from the server in windows. But while executing the li plugin-package command getting the below error.
Thanks for the support.
[15:35:02] ✗ FAIL: Missing 2 expected files: res, res/**
[15:35:02] Tested 1 tests, 0 passes, 1 failures: FAIL
[15:35:02] 'plugin-verify' errored after 31 ms
[15:35:02] [gulp] Error in plugin 'stream-sync': Errors
[Stream 2] Error in script 'gulp-expect-file': Failed 1 expectations
Thanks,
DVB
- RobertT
  Boss
  6 years ago
  Hi DVB,
  This error typically indicates that you're missing a dependency required for the SDK to run.
  In this case it is rsync that's missing, you can install cwRsync which is free for Windows.
  Once installed, open a Powershell window and type the following command to verify that rsync is installed properly
  rsync --version
  
  After you've done that, if you've exported the studio plugin from your community, you may need to export it again, then run li serve-sass to complete downloading any other core skin dependencies and precompile the skin to help with plugin validation when it comes time to submit it again.
  
  I hope this helps
  - Denizbaby
    Guide
    6 years ago
    Thanks RobertT