a plea for help!

[mrose17]

hi. i couldn't find an email/twitter/etc. for you, so:

hexagon - would you be kind enough to help out a fellow node.js person and augment the read me.md file explaining how to get telldus-core built on a mac? presumably with that in place, your wscript will work well.

sorry and thanks!

marshall

[Hexagon]

Hi there,

I have no time for completing the readme at the moment, but right out of my memory i think it is as easy as installing npm and writing

npm install

... or ...

npm install -g

... for global install

Then you enter your project directory and write

npm link telldus-core-js

... to be able to include telldus-core-js in your project

[mrose17]

thanks very much for getting back to me. i tried those steps earlier before deciding to bother you (-;

two questions:

1. are you on a mac or linux or ?
2. prior to running npm did you install any libraries from anywhere (e.g., the telldus core libraries)?

thanks,

/mtr

[Hexagon]

Hehe :)

1. Linux only (does not own a max)
2. Yeah, telldus-core has to be installed for this to work (http://developer.telldus.com/wiki/TellStickInstallationSource)

when the tdtool --list command works all should be ok.

What error message do you get on npm install ?

[Hexagon]

Seems like telldus-core is included with Telldus Center on Mac

[mrose17]

now i understand: i misunderstood! i was thinking that doing an npm install would do all the heavy lifting of getting the telldus-core package, doing the compile/install, etc.

there error is what you'd expect for a system without the libraries:

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/telldus-core-js npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/telldus-core-js

telldus-core-js@0.0.6 install /private/tmp/node_modules/telldus-core-js node-gyp configure build

CXX(target) Release/obj.target/telldus/telldus.o ../telldus.cc:13:10: fatal error: 'telldus-core.h' file not found

include

     ^

1 error generated.

[mrose17]

understood. i was just looking for a turn-key install: many of the folks who use the package that i would like to use telldus-core-js are good for "npm install -l" but aren't really skilled for downloads/compiles/etc...

[Hexagon]

Oh, no npm install does only take care of the node-side of things. Hope it runs smooth from now on :)

I'll make a complete readme in a couple of days, this were great feedback for that!

[mrose17]

thanks!

[Hexagon]

@mrose17 , Could you try if a simple npm install telldus do work on mac now?

[nilzen]

It does work on mac!

[nilzen]

I guess the user needs Xcode installed to be able to build it though.

[Hexagon]

Thanks :+1:

[nilzen]

We/you/someone should look in to what's needed to get it working on Windows though, had a quick look earlier today but I got stuck quick when it came to linking the library. I guess it's C:\Windows\System32\TelldusCenter.dll that needs to be "linked" somehow?

[nilzen]

Haha just noticed you did a commit 14 minutes ago for Windows :+1:

[Hexagon]

Yeah, don't know what modifications might be needed to the .gyp file tough. Didn't even get the compiler going as there is some complication with node-gyp and 64-bit windows. I'll create an issue on that :)

[mrose17]

hi. thanks for looking into this. requiring Xcode is fine; no one gets to compile anything on a mac these days without it…

i tried both this:

  npm -l install telldus

and

    npm -l install git://github.com/Hexagon/node-telldus.git

and got the same error as above, i.e., it doesn't attempt to download any telldus sources, it just goes straight to trying to compile telldus.cc

sorry!

[Hexagon]

I am afraid it isn't possible to script all prerequisites in this case, even on Linux you'll have to manually install telldus-core prior to running npm install telldus.

I'm not a 100% sure though, so @nilzen should give a 2nd opinon :)

[nilzen]

Yes installing Telldus Center from telldus.se is a prerequisite before installing telldus via npm.

[mrose17]

thanks. ok, i'll install it on a VM and send a pull request with the exact installation instructions. i still wish we could build this from source, perhaps in the future.

thanks!

[nilzen]

@mrose17 I don't get what you are after, compiling Telldus Center from source? We don't want/can't to distribute the source for Telldus Center through npm.

[mrose17]

all i want from source is telldus-core, not telldus-center. if we can build that from source (they have a github repository with a mirror, by the way), then that's great.

why build from source: because then i don't have to worry about toolchain/library incompatibilities between node and the telldus-core and the libraries they use.

if you look at a package like node-openzave, when you do the "npm install", it fetches the openzwave source, builds it, then builds the glue file, etc. that means i can just put node-openzwave in the dependencies section of my package.json and the user just has to go get a coffee… ditto for the noble package (BLE for node.js)

that's my goal here: i want to be able to add "node-telldus" to my package.json, and when the users of my package do "npm -l install", they don't have to do anything other than check email and twitter while everything gets built.

does that make sense? if i'm missing something, please let me know!

thanks!

[nilzen]

If you manage to get it working and it's ok with their licenses ut sounds great!

[mrose17]

+1