Porting to Windows/Linux

[PaulBGD]

What would be required to port this to Windows/Linux?

[nanaeasiedu]

I'm on Windows and it didn't build on it due to nslog package. When I removed the nslog package and it's related code, I built it and it worked.

[PaulBGD]

Yeah I'm seeing the same thing, let me try removing nslog.

[PaulBGD]

I did get it working, although it spans multiple monitors unless I add a few icons. This works great nonetheless!

[nanaeasiedu]

Spans multiple monitors??

[PaulBGD]

Yeah, half is on one and half is on the other. Adding more icons to the right of the hacker menu icon temporarily fixed this.

[nanaeasiedu]

Alright!

[owenthereal]

I confirmed that nslog is causing issues when compiling on Windows. We'd need to a find an alternative of it. However, the menu doesn't pop up on Windows 10 when clicked, will need to investigate more:

[PaulBGD]

Showed up fine for me, maybe you need to use the official Windows 10?

[onbjerg]

I am currently writing a packaging script for Windows (and Linux) in #25. It builds for me on Windows 10 without issues.

Care to test for me?

[PaulBGD]

> hacker-menu@1.1.3 build c:\Users\Paul\hacker-menu
> babel src -D -d dist --compact true

src\client\main.js -> dist\client\main.js
src\client\menu.js -> dist\client\menu.js
src\client\spinner.js -> dist\client\spinner.js
src\client\story.js -> dist\client\story.js
src\client\story_box.js -> dist\client\story_box.js
src\client\story_list.js -> dist\client\story_list.js
src\index.js -> dist\index.js
src\logger.js -> dist\logger.js
src\model\read_cache.js -> dist\model\read_cache.js
src\model\story_manager_status.js -> dist\model\story_manager_status.js
src\model\story_type.js -> dist\model\story_type.js
src\server\auto_update_manager.js -> dist\server\auto_update_manager.js
src\server\story_manager.js -> dist\server\story_manager.js
src\server\tray_manager.js -> dist\server\tray_manager.js
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[PaulBGD]

If we're porting to Windows, creating an installer with https://github.com/atom/grunt-electron-installer would be great.

[owenthereal]

You can now run script/package --all to build for all platforms. But somehow the menu didn't pop up for Windows 10. I created an issue: max-mapper/menubar#67.

[onbjerg]

The menu pops up on Windows 10, but when I click outside the menu in order to close it, it just goes blank. In order to make it work again, I have to right click on a process in my task bar called Electron and click "Close Window".