Error installing ParaViewWeb with npm install paraviewweb --save

[rpelorosso]

Hi! I'm trying to install paraviewweb in windows, I have the latest version of nodejs and git. When I run npm install paraviewweb --save, the process fails. I'm sorry about the formatting, I didn't find a way to print verbatim. Do you know what might be happening?

Thanks!

D:\pww>npm install paraviewweb --save npm WARN deprecated wrench@1.5.8: wrench.js is deprecated! You should check out fs-extra (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) for any operations you were using wrench for. Thanks for all the usage over the years.

utf-8-validate@1.2.1 install D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\utf-8-validate node-gyp rebuild

\ D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\utf-8-validate>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "" rebuild ) Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch. D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\utf-8-validate\build\validation.vcxproj(20,3): error MSB4019: The imported project "D:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm th at the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:276:23) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.10586 gyp ERR! command "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\utf-8-validate gyp ERR! node -v v4.4.4 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.3.1 gyp ERR! not ok

bufferutil@1.2.1 install D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\bufferutil node-gyp rebuild

D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\bufferutil>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "" rebuild ) Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch. D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\bufferutil\build\bufferutil.vcxproj(20,3): error MSB4019: The imported project "D:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that t he path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:276:23) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.10586 gyp ERR! command "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb\node_modules\ws\node_modules\bufferutil gyp ERR! node -v v4.4.4 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.3.1 gyp ERR! not ok npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing utf-8-validate@1.2.1 npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing bufferutil@1.2.1

paraviewweb@1.5.1 postinstall D:\pww\node_modules\paraviewweb fix-kw-web-suite || true

'fix-kw-web-suite' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'true' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.10586 npm ERR! argv "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "paraviewweb" "--save" npm ERR! node v4.4.4 npm ERR! npm v2.15.1 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! paraviewweb@1.5.1 postinstall: fix-kw-web-suite || true npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the paraviewweb@1.5.1 postinstall script 'fix-kw-web-suite || true'. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the paraviewweb package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! fix-kw-web-suite || true npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs paraviewweb npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm ERR! npm owner ls paraviewweb npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! D:\pww\npm-debug.log

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[jourdain]

Unfortunately yes... ;-(

We haven't tried to build/develop ParaViewWeb on a Windows system hence the unknown behavior you are noticing.

I guess, if we assume node 4+ and npm 3+, I should be able to remove the post install script which obviously fails on Windows. But on your system, it seems that "ws" also bring its set of issues...

Anyway, thanks for reporting back...

[rpelorosso]

I see, thanks for answering! I don't have a Mac, but I guess it should work fine in Linux, right?

[jourdain]

Yes it should. Thanks for your patience.

[rpelorosso]

Excellent! I'll try it in Linux then :) Thanks YOU for your hard work! :)

[mathturtle]

I work mostly on a paraviewweb based application, but my main development platform is Linux. So it should work fine on Linux. You'll probably have to install your own node/npm, the one in my package manager (Ubuntu 15.10) was too old.

[rpelorosso]

Thanks @mathturtle ! I'm trying to install it using Arch Linux. My nodejs version is 6.1.0 and my npm version is 3.8.9.

When running npm install paraviewweb, the following happens (pasted below). Looks like fix-kw-web-suite is missing. Do you know why this might be happening? Thanks!

silencer@myhostname ~]$ npm install paraviewweb npm WARN deprecated wrench@1.5.8: wrench.js is deprecated! You should check out fs-extra (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) for any operations you were using wrench for. Thanks for all the usage over the years.

bufferutil@1.2.1 install /home/silencer/node_modules/bufferutil node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/silencer/node_modules/bufferutil/build' CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil.node COPY Release/bufferutil.node make: Leaving directory '/home/silencer/node_modules/bufferutil/build'

utf-8-validate@1.2.1 install /home/silencer/node_modules/utf-8-validate node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/silencer/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build' CXX(target) Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/validation.node COPY Release/validation.node make: Leaving directory '/home/silencer/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build'

paraviewweb@1.5.3 postinstall /home/silencer/node_modules/paraviewweb fix-kw-web-suite || true

sh: fix-kw-web-suite: command not found /home/silencer └─┬ paraviewweb@1.5.3 ├─┬ autobahn@0.9.6 │ └── crypto-js@3.1.6 ├─┬ commander@2.9.0 │ └── graceful-readlink@1.0.1 ├─┬ gh-pages@0.10.0 │ ├── async@1.5.2 │ ├─┬ glob@7.0.3 │ │ ├─┬ inflight@1.0.4 │ │ │ └── wrappy@1.0.1 │ │ ├── inherits@2.0.1 │ │ ├─┬ minimatch@3.0.0 │ │ │ └─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.4 │ │ │ ├── balanced-match@0.4.1 │ │ │ └── concat-map@0.0.1 │ │ ├── once@1.3.3 │ │ └── path-is-absolute@1.0.0 │ ├── graceful-fs@4.1.2 │ ├── q@1.4.1 │ ├─┬ q-io@1.13.2 │ │ ├─┬ collections@0.2.2 │ │ │ └── weak-map@1.0.0 │ │ ├── mime@1.3.4 │ │ ├── mimeparse@0.1.4 │ │ ├── qs@1.2.2 │ │ └── url2@0.0.0 │ └── wrench@1.5.8 ├── shelljs@0.5.3 ├── when@3.7.7 └─┬ ws@0.8.1 ├─┬ bufferutil@1.2.1 │ ├── bindings@1.2.1 │ └── nan@2.3.3 ├── options@0.0.6 ├── ultron@1.0.2 └── utf-8-validate@1.2.1

npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/silencer/package.json' npm WARN silencer No description npm WARN silencer No repository field. npm WARN silencer No README data npm WARN silencer No license field. [silencer@myhostname ~]$

[jourdain]

That's expected and you don't need to worry about it. That's why the command it run is:

"fix-kw-web-suite || true"

[rpelorosso]

Thanks @jourdain ! What about the

npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/silencer/package.json' npm WARN silencer No description npm WARN silencer No repository field. npm WARN silencer No README data npm WARN silencer No license field.

messages, is that normal?

[jourdain]

Are you installing it for one of your web project? ParaViewWeb is just a Web library and does not provide any executable. So when you ask npm to install it, npm assume it is to add it into you local web project. If npm can't find your package.json, then it print that it couldn't find your web project.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:45 PM, rpelorosso notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks @jourdain https://github.com/jourdain ! What about the

npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/silencer/package.json' npm WARN silencer No description npm WARN silencer No repository field. npm WARN silencer No README data npm WARN silencer No license field.

messages, is that normal?

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[rpelorosso]

Thank you @jourdain, that makes A LOT of sense. I just have one more question, where can I find the code for this http://www.paraview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Viz-1024x695.png example?. I know that ParaView 4.1.0 comes with \paraview-4.1\site-packages\paraview\web\pv_web_visualizer.py which seems to be an older version of the Visualizer presented in the linked screenshot, but ParaView 5.0 doesn't seem to come with any python server code nor client examples.

[jourdain]

ParaView 5.0 should have the exact same JS code as paraview 4.4.

I don't even know why ParaView 5.0 won't have the Web code (unless you are on windows).

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:33 PM, rpelorosso notifications@github.com wrote:

Thank you @jourdain https://github.com/jourdain, that makes A LOT of sense. I just have one more question, where can I found the code for this http://www.paraview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Viz-1024x695.png example?. I know that ParaView 4.1.0 comes with \paraview-4.1\site-packages\paraview\web\pv_web_visualizer.py which seems to be an older version of the Visualizer presented in the linked screenshot, but ParaView 5.0 doesn't seem to come with any python server code examples.

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[rpelorosso]

Yes, you're right and I feel like a fool :P It is there, thank you very much!