Unable to build from the master branch

[brianpardee]

Hey, bastimeyer. I'm trying to build from the master branch. I followed your instructions in the readme exactly and no go. I cloned the repository using GitHub's app. I ran the command prompt as administrator when trying to build.
I get this when doing the command "npm install"

C:\TWITCH\livestreamer-twitch-gui>npm install

livestreamer-twitch-gui@0.6.1 postinstall C:\TWITCH\livestreamer-twitch-gui
bower --config.interactive=false install

bower ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the PATH

npm ERR! livestreamer-twitch-gui@0.6.1 postinstall: bower --config.interactive= false install
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the livestreamer-twitch-gui@0.6.1 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the livestreamer-twitch-gui package,

npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! bower --config.interactive=false install
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls livestreamer-twitch-gui
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nod
ejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install"
npm ERR! cwd C:\TWITCH\livestreamer-twitch-gui
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.35
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\TWITCH\livestreamer-twitch-gui\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[brianpardee]

Nevermind. I got it working, though I didn't use the Node.js command prompt this time.
I right clicked on the repo in the GitHub app and selected Open in Git Shell, then ran the commands. I don't know if it matters or not, but before doing that I selected Git Bash as the default shell in the GitHub app's options.

[bastimeyer]

Hi, thanks for helping to test the master branch!

bower ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the PATH

Git is a requirement for building the application (because of some dependencies of the npm + bower packages and because of the metadata build task).
Please make sure that the path of your git installation is properly set in your system's PATH variable. From the default windows shell and also from the "node.js command prompt" you can do this by typing where git or echo %PATH%...

I don't know the github app and also if it comes with a local git installation, but you should install the official "git for windows" from www.git-scm.com... The installer then adds git to the PATH variable, so you're able to use it from the default windows shell as well.

I'm glad you quickly managed to find a solution. 😉