Unable to Run on Windows 11 with Node 21

[rajivraghu]

PS C:\POC\PuterOs\puter> npm install
npm WARN deprecated phin@2.9.3: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
npm WARN deprecated xterm-addon-fit@0.7.0: This package is now deprecated. Move to @xterm/addon-fit instead.
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated sinon@15.2.0: 16.1.1
npm WARN deprecated xterm@5.3.0: This package is now deprecated. Move to @xterm/xterm instead.

> puter.com@2.1.0 postinstall
> cd packages/phoenix && cd packages/contextlink && npm install && cd - && cd packages/strataparse && npm install && cd - && cd packages/pty && npm install

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The system cannot find the path specified.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\POC\PuterOs\puter
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c cd packages/phoenix && cd packages/contextlink && npm install && cd - && cd packages/strataparse && npm install && cd - && cd packages/pty && npm install

After this npm start , This will not start properly..

Blank UI

[RobertLupas]

I have the same issue! I haven't figured the solution out yet, but I'll try looking into it and posting it here.

[RobertLupas]

This is related to the problem in #208, which has a pending pull request (#215) to fix the issue. But I don't think that this also fixes

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path path\to\puter\repo
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c cd packages/phoenix && cd packages/contextlink && npm install && cd - && cd packages/strataparse && npm install && cd - && cd packages/pty && npm install

[KernelDeimos]

The PR you mentioned breaks production deployment so we can't merge it, but I think the issue you're experiencing is different. I suspect the issue you're encountering is a Windows-specific failure, since we don't see much testing under Windows environments.

My recommendations are to try under Docker, try under WSL or Linux, or if you contribute a fix for Windows we will merge it. If you try any of these let us know how it goes so we can rule out anything that isn't specific to Windows.

[sakhimpungose]

I also experienced this issue, I manage to fix it by changing the postinstall script in the main package.json file. cd packages/phoenix && cd packages/contextlink && npm install && cd ../../packages/strataparse && npm install && cd ../../packages/pty && npm install

[Eric-Lighthall]

I also experienced this issue, I manage to fix it by changing the postinstall script in the main package.json file. cd packages/phoenix && cd packages/contextlink && npm install && cd ../../packages/strataparse && npm install && cd ../../packages/pty && npm install

This works for the package installation on Windows, but running puter locally on Windows still seems to break it. Instead, I use WSL for puter development.

[phook]

The earlier comment fixes the install problem (but && cd ../.. should be added). When running puter it serves the wrong directory for static files:

paper.webp:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) initgui.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) helpers.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) IPC.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) globals.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) i18n.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) index.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

These are all attempted be loaded from /src, however files are present at / I am however not able to find where or why this problem occurs :-(

[jelveh]

This has been finally fixed 😭 Puter should now run in Windows without issues.