Neuroglancer on Windows 10

[Kaju-Bubanja]

I'm trying to build and run neuroglancer on windows 10 64bit, but was not able to build it.
I tried following the instructions given with nodejs versions 5.9.0, 6.1.0, 7.2.0 and 7.3.0.
With all versions npm complains that the fsevents module could not be installed:
notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.0.15: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
I assume that this is important, because when trying to run the dev server it complains about two things:

1. ts-loader: \neuroglancer\config\typescript_compiler_shim.js@2.1.4. This version may or may not be compatible with ts-loader.
2. ERROR in error TS18002: The 'files' list in config file 'tsconfig.json' is empty.
   What files do need to be specified in the tsconfig?
   And is it even possible to get neuroglancer running on windows?

[jbms]

Thanks for reporting this issue. I don't think there should be any fundamental problem that prevents it from building on Windows, but so far the build process has only been tested on Linux and Mac OS. The fsevents and ts-loader warnings are expected and can be ignored --- the real error appears to be related to the 'files' list. I will see if I can reproduce the problem in a Windows environment and get back to you. Neuroglancer should run fine in Chrome and Firefox on Windows. It doesn't yet work on Microsoft Edge due to Edge lacking support for the WEBGL_draw_buffers extension that is used by Neuroglancer --- a workaround is possible, at some performance cost in certain cases, but has not yet been implemented.

[jbms]

There was a bug in how the configuration scripts were specifying the path to the tsconfig.json file; it happened to work accidentally on Linux and Mac OS, but did not work on Windows. I've now fixed it and confirmed that both the build and dev-server actions now work on Windows.