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[tkellen]

First, thanks for putting this project together--I'm really excited to see it come to fruition!

So, on to my question:

Will you be including a binary for windows? I'm heading up the http://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib repo, which is an addon-pack for the javascript build tool http://github.com/cowboy/grunt. I'd love to leverage this to include a sass compilation task. The reason I ask about the binary is because one of the criteria we've set is that everything runs out of the box on any OSX/Windows/Linux machine with nothing but npm install.

Thanks!

[deanmao]

If you compile one, I'll put it in. I don't have access to a developer windows machine sadly.

[tkellen]

Awesome! I don't have immediate access to a windows developer machine either (can't say as though I'm sad about it!) but I can spin up a VM for this purpose and get a repo running that is dedicated to keeping a binary in sync with libsass.

[deanmao]

cool. I just added precompiled binaries for mac & linux. hopefully it compiles out of the box for windows.

[deanmao]

I guess I'll try compiling it on windows later, I found out one can download a free windows 8 preview iso, along with developer tools. I don't know if that's all that is needed to get it running in windows, but I'll give it a shot later.

[tkellen]

Bah. I hate windows.

------ Build started: Project: Sassc, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
  sassc.c
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(11): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(12): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(12): error C2223: left of '->options' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(13): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(13): error C2223: left of '->options' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(14): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(14): error C2223: left of '->input_path' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(16): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(16): warning C4047: 'function' : 'sass_file_context *' differs in levels of indirection from 'int'
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(16): warning C4024: 'sass_compile_file' : different types for formal and actual parameter 1
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(18): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(18): error C2223: left of '->error_status' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(19): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(19): error C2223: left of '->error_message' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(19): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(19): error C2223: left of '->error_message' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(22): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(22): error C2223: left of '->output_string' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(23): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(23): error C2223: left of '->output_string' must point to struct/union
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(29): error C2065: 'ctx' : undeclared identifier
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(29): warning C4047: 'function' : 'sass_file_context *' differs in levels of indirection from 'int'
c:\users\tyler\documents\github\sassc\sassc.c(29): warning C4024: 'sass_free_file_context' : different types for formal and actual parameter 1
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

[tkellen]

That was from Visual C++ Express 2010 on an x86 install of Windows 7, FYI.

[tkellen]

I posted this as an issue on sassc. Gotta get to work here right now but I will get back to you when I know more!

[pdjota]

Hi. Nice work, unlucky that won't install in Windows. Will try to get repo and build there.

[pr1ntr]

Any plans to get a working windows binary into node-sass?

[deanmao]

no plans at the moment.... nobody here uses windows.

[pr1ntr]

I prefer windows since my beefier rig is windows. I guess I have to use my macbook for sass related things. : /

[deanmao]

Run linux on virtualbox/vmware on your windows machine. There are dozens of node modules that won't work in windows, because sadly windows is 2nd tier dev platform.

[mauritslamers]

I do have access to a Windows VM (running WinXP SP3) and I need a working compile of node-sass.
My build log is here: https://gist.github.com/3875582

It probably needs some adjustments in the bindings.gyp file for the windows compiler, but at the moment I don't know how to do that exactly.

[deanmao]

So I'm guessing we can close this out as another pull-request supplied windows binaries.