--gulpfile failed on Windows in Node v0.11.13

[jwu]

When I using gulp on Windows platform with Node v0.11.13 and running command:

gulp --gulpfile mygulp.js

It will report error:

Task 'default' is not in your gulpfile.

However I have default task define on it. Mac/Linux platform are OK. And if I change my node to v0.10 on Windows, it also successfully running.

So I guess the gulp --gulpfile failed on Windows in Node v0.11.13

[yocontra]

Can you show your gulpfile and your log?

[jwu]

This is my gulpfile.js:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var clean = require('gulp-clean');
var gutil = require('gulp-util');

var paths = {
    ext_core: [ 
        'core/bin/core.dev.js',
        'core/bin/core.min.js',
    ],
    ext_engine: [ 
        'engine/bin/engine.dev.js',
        'engine/bin/engine.min.js',
    ],
    ext_editor_ui: [ 
        'editor-ui/bin/editor-ui.css',
        'editor-ui/bin/editor-ui.html',
        'editor-ui/bin/img/**/*.png',
    ],
    ext_editor: [ 
        'editor/bin/editor.html',
        'editor/bin/editor.dev.js',
        'editor/bin/editor.min.js',
    ],
    editor_misc: [ 
        'editor/favicon.ico',
        'editor/index.html',
    ],
};

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// copy
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

gulp.task('cp-core', function() {
    return gulp.src(paths.ext_core)
    .pipe(gulp.dest('bin/ext/fire-core'))
    ;
});

gulp.task('cp-engine', function() {
    return gulp.src(paths.ext_engine)
    .pipe(gulp.dest('bin/ext/fire-engine'))
    ;
});

gulp.task('cp-editor-ui', function() {
    return gulp.src(paths.ext_editor_ui)
    .pipe(gulp.dest('bin/ext/fire-editor-ui'))
    ;
});

gulp.task('cp-editor', function() {
    return gulp.src(paths.ext_editor)
    .pipe(gulp.dest('bin/ext/fire-editor'))
    ;
});

gulp.task('cp-misc', function() {
    return gulp.src(paths.editor_misc)
    .pipe(gulp.dest('bin/'))
    ;
});

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// clean
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

gulp.task('clean', function() {
    var files = [
        'bin/package.json',
        'bin/bower.json',
        'bin/favicon.ico',
        'bin/index.html',
        'bin/ext/fire-core/**/*',
        'bin/ext/fire-engine/**/*',
        'bin/ext/fire-editor-ui/**/*',
        'bin/ext/fire-editor/**/*',
    ];
    return gulp.src(files, {read: false})
    .pipe(clean({force: true}))
    ;
});

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// tasks
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

gulp.task('copy', [
    'cp-core', 
    'cp-engine', 
    'cp-editor', 
    'cp-editor-ui',
    'cp-misc',
] );
gulp.task('default', ['copy'] );

gulp.task('watch', function() {
    gulp.watch(paths.ext_core, ['cp-core']).on ( 'error', gutil.log );
    gulp.watch(paths.ext_engine, ['cp-engine']).on ( 'error', gutil.log );
    gulp.watch(paths.ext_editor_ui, ['cp-editor-ui']).on ( 'error', gutil.log );
    gulp.watch(paths.ext_editor, ['cp-editor']).on ( 'error', gutil.log );
});

The log is just:

[12:35:13] Using gulpfile D:\projects\fireball-x\main\gulpfile.js
[12:35:13] Task 'default' is not in your gulpfile
[12:35:13] Please check the documentation for proper gulpfile formatting

My command:

gulp --gulpfile gulpfile.js

[yocontra]

So you can see in your log

[12:35:13] Using gulpfile ~/fireball-x/main/gulpfile.js

Which means the --gulpfile flag you say is set to mygulp.js is being ignored

A bug in liftoff on node 0.11? cc @tkellen

[jwu]

I updated my last comment, here gulpfile.js means mygulp.js. I can rename it and here is the log:

[12:35:13] Using gulpfile D:\projects\fireball-x\main\mygulp.js
[12:35:13] Task 'default' is not in your gulpfile
[12:35:13] Please check the documentation for proper gulpfile formatting

My command:

gulp --gulpfile mygulp.js

[jwu]

To make things clear, in Windows, with Node v0.11.13, if I running gulp --gulpfile xxx.js, it will give me

[12:35:13] Task 'default' is not in your gulpfile

But if I just run gulp without --gulpfile, things goes well.

[yocontra]

@jwu Okay so it isn't the flag that is being ignored

[tkellen]

Confirmed bug in Liftoff. I'll have a fix out as soon as I can.

[segrey]

As a workaround, use lowercased drive letter: --gulpfile=d:\projects\fireball-x\main\mygulp.js
Related bug in WebStrom gulp integration: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-13474

[tkellen]

Can you run npm update and let me know if this has been resolved?

[jwu]

Test it in node v0.11.14 + gulp 3.8.8. I failed in Windows' cmd.exe window, but works in git-bash (MinGW terminal).

Here is the snap shot:

In Windows cmd.exe:

In Git Bash:

[phated]

pinging @tkellen for an update based on last comment.

[tkellen]

Looking into this again now.

[tkellen]

Sorry, haven't had time to look at this yet :/. I'm going to need to download a windows vm to fix this, it seems.

[tkellen]

If you put a console.log('hello') in mygulp.js, you can see the file is being required properly by gulp.

I believe this has something to do with filename casing and the require cache, the gulp singleton in the gulpfile does not match the gulp singleton in the cli.

I can find a way to fix this, but I think gulpfiles should export their configuration--this global singleton business has always rubbed me the wrong way (#331)

[tkellen]

ref: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#7806
ref: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#6774
ref: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive@f6e5740

[tkellen]

Here is the real root cause: browserify/resolve#61

[phated]

Dug into this a little more. path.join calls path.normalize in node core (see https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/path.js#L243) and path.normalize makes windows paths all lowercase (see https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/path.js#L181). This is really painful because node's require.resolve method only calls path.resolve which doesn't do any normalization. The resolve module that @tkellen linked to uses path.join a lot.

[phated]

Poking around in the repl, I might have found a solution. The module module of node exposes some internal methods that are used for require.resolve, one of them being module._findPath. I attempted to use this with a cwd and it seemed to work correctly.

var mod = require('module');
var file = mod._findPath('test/gulpfile.js', ['../gulp-cli']);
//=> '/Users/phated/gulp-cli/test/gulpfile.js'

This shouldn't be calling into path.normalize at all but I'd like someone to try it on Windows.

What I really want to know is why they added the toLowerCase to normalize on Windows in node core. It seems insanely broken.

[phated]

Another issue to reference nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#7799

[heikki]

This seems to work with node 0.12.0. @jwu Can you confirm?

[jwu]

I've test node v0.12.0 + gulp latest in Windows. It works! The issue can be closed :)
Thanks a lot.

[tkellen]

Thanks heavens.