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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)
  • 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

    • charan's avatar
      charan
      Guide
      5 years ago

      Thanks allensmith81 

      Primordials Issue is resolved when switching to specific version of node. 

      Thanks