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 🙂

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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 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:
1. npm install --production windows-build-tools (note this will take a while to complete).
2. npm install -g gulp
3. 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

34 Replies

irach15
Maven
3 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
3 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.
saikumarn
Advisor
3 years ago
RobertTCould you please share the steps for installing SDK on the window?
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

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How to Install the Lithium Community SDK on Windows

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