📝 node-sass on Windows troubleshooting

[hgwood]

Prerequisites

• I have read the Contributing guidelines
• I have read the Code of conduct and I agree with it

Description

Installation (npm install or yarn install) failed consistently when building node-sass@3.13.0 required by hotdoc@^0.7.2 required by immutadot@master. Latest Windows 10 x64, Node.js 8.2.1 or 8.4.0.

Reason: system was configured to build native packages using VC++ 2015. node-sass only became compatible with v2015 starting at 4.5.0. Configuring npm to use VC++ 2013 for this project using npm config set msvs_version 2013 fixed the problem.

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #84 into master will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is n/a.

@@          Coverage Diff          @@
##           master    #84   +/-   ##
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  Coverage     100%   100%           
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  Files          59     59           
  Lines         120    120           
  Branches        7      7           
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  Hits          120    120

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[nlepage]

If this problem with node-sass occurs when you install the dependencies of immutadot (and not when you install immutadot as a dependency) it should been moved in the contributing section. Thank you.

[hgwood]

Right! I've moved my paragraph to CONTRIBUTING.md.