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bitpay / node-bitpay-client

A Node.js module and command line client for interacting with BitPay's Cryptographically Secure API
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npm install does not work #54

Open thgh opened 9 years ago

thgh commented 9 years ago

It failed on Win8.1 and on Ubuntu 12.04 in a VM.

npm ERR! bignum@0.9.0 install: `node-gyp configure build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the bignum@0.9.0 install script.

Edit: It works here on Ubuntu 14.04, I guess there were some dependencies missing such as node-gyp?

rheldt commented 9 years ago

Having same problem here on a Win 7 machine. I installed node-gyp prior to installing bitpay. 

C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\bitpay\node_modules\bitauth\node_modules\bi
tcore\node_modules\bignum>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\nod
e-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" configure build
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: spawn ENOENT
gyp ERR! stack     at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:
34)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modu
les\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "configure" "build"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\bitpay\node_modules\bitauth\no
de_modules\bitcore\node_modules\bignum
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.24
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.2
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing fsevents@0.2.1
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs
\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "bitpay"
npm ERR! node v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm  v2.1.2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! bignum@0.9.0 install: `node-gyp configure build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
tacticalchihuahua commented 9 years ago

Hi guys, unfortunately for the time being, there is no support for Windows since bitcore has some native dependencies. It is possible to build bitcore on Windows and thus node-bitpay-client would also work, however until bitcore2 is ready we won't be supporting Windows.

If you are gluttons for punishment, @unusualbob can point you at how to build bitcore on Windows.

rheldt commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the reply @gordonwritescode. I've tried everything I could think of to get this to work. I just need the library to generate a ClientID, so I guess it's time to fire up a Linux VM.

killerapp commented 9 years ago

Thanks @gordonwritescode - It would be awesome if this was noted at the top of the page. If you follow this from bitpay.com you never get a warning about this. The error messaging leads you to try to install visual studio, so no help there, just more time wasted.

rheldt commented 9 years ago

I would agree with @killerapp on this matter. Noting this somewhere in the instructions (i.e. bitpay.com/api for example) would have been nice. I spent days trying to work around my bignum problems. Installing a Ubuntu in a VM along with everything I needed for Node got me what I needed in a few hours.

tacticalchihuahua commented 9 years ago

Duly noted guys. I'll make sure to update the readme and include this information on bitpay.com/api