v1.0.0 Unable to make/build file on Windows

[hendry91]

Hi,
my conversejs 1.0.0 getting error when build the file.
My step:

1. make -f makefile.win
2. test run on visual studio, get error, but I skip it, and it run without problem.
3. make -f makefile.win build

But step 3 I get :

node_modules\.bin\grunt.cmd touch:npm
Warning: Task "touch:npm" not found. Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.

I try to build previous version 0.10.1, no problem with that.
Can help me? how to solve it?
Thanks.

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[hendry91]

hi, can someone help me?

[mckaygerhard]

use linux, step that verify a file are not present.. due seems the makefile are incomplete, must be a task target named touch

use a real os ...

[hendry91]

Thanks @mckaygerhard .

[jcbrand]

@hendry91 Looks like you don't have touch, which is a native Linux/Unix utility. You can try to install the NPM version: npm install touch and see if that works for you. If it does, please let me know, and I'll update the code.

[hendry91]

@jcbrand unfortunately it getting the same error.
I use VM ubuntu to make it ady..
Thanks.

[mckaygerhard]

again use a real os to really understang what happened

touch:npm

its a target in the makefile, and one of the errors was touch are not installed, then there's a target named npm

[jcbrand]

@mckaygerhard Telling people to use "a real os" is not helping, please stop.

[coltonmccormack]

A workaround for this is to install Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
Via a command line, enter your new bash installation (it may ask you to make a user first, if so, do it):
bash
Then install nodejs from the node PPA and ruby.
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt-get install nodejs ruby-full git

Checkout the project and build it:
git clone https://github.com/jcbrand/converse.js.git
cd converse.js
npm install
make dist

This particular sequence of events got the project compiling for me. Note that to get make serve to work, should you want to view the mockups, you will need to opt-in to the Windows Insider builds Fast Ring and run Windows Update first. This is because only the most recent Linux improvements in Windows implement the necessary networking interfaces to run the http server. These updates will be rolled into the "Creator's Update" in April 2017.