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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 ...
RobertT's avatar
RobertT
Boss

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.

 

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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)