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RobertT's avatar
RobertT
Boss
7 years ago

How to Install the Lithium Community SDK on Windows

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 ...
allensmith81's avatar
allensmith81
Boss
5 years ago

I have been trying to install this on Ubuntu via WSL in windows 10 and when I found this I was like .. OMG Thank good...

 

It crashes in the same places as Ubuntu does. 

 

 

 win_delay_load_hook.cc
Done Building Project "C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\build\bind
ing.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.

Done Building Project "C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\build\bind
ing.vcxproj.metaproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.

Done Building Project "C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\build\bind
ing.sln" (default targets) -- FAILED.

C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\build\binding.sln" (default targ
et) (1) ->
"C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\build\binding.vcxproj.metaproj"
(default target) (2) ->
"C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\build\binding.vcxproj" (default
target) (4) ->
(ClCompile target) ->
  c:\users\v-allens\appdata\roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass\src\create_string.cpp(17): erro
r C2664: 'v8::String::Utf8Value::Utf8Value(const v8::String::Utf8Value &)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'v8::Local<v
8::Value>' to 'const v8::String::Utf8Value &' [C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modu
les\node-sass\build\binding.vcxproj]

    14 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:01:05.20
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:275:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.20170
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\v-allens\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\lithium-sdk\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v12.18.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
  • RobertT's avatar
    RobertT
    Boss
    5 years ago

    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 --vs2015

    following this re-run the command to install the Lithium-SDK

    npm install -g lithium-sdk

    Hopefully that should work.

     

    • allensmith81's avatar
      allensmith81
      Boss
      5 years ago

      Well now I am in the same place as the last poster.. Install finished (thanks RobertT ) but li create-project failes as it says primordials is not defined

       

      any thoughts?

       

      PS C:\Users\v-allens\Plugin> li create-project
fs.js:36
} = primordials;
    ^

ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
    at fs.js:36:5
    at req_ (C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\natives\index.js:143:24)
    at Object.req [as require] (C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\natives\index.js:55:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\v-allens\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\lithium-sdk\node_modules\vinyl-fs\node_modules\graceful-fs\fs.js:1:37)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1137:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1157:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:985:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:878:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1025:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:72:18)
      • allensmith81's avatar
        allensmith81
        Boss
        5 years ago

        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 11.15.0


        Once your back on node 11 you should be able to run li create-project with no problems