Support for building on Windows

[ComFreek]

I know that Makefiles can be run on Windows, but wouldn't it be easier (and more portable) to use Gulp?

[bramp]

Thanks for the suggestion ComFreek. I had a similar request in #10 asking for a Grunt build file. I would be happy to evaluate Gulp (patches welcome), but it would have to provide value over Make.

I don't know enough about Gulp, but for me to consider switching to it, it has to be as simple as Make, handle incremental builds, and provide all the other features Make does today. The ability to have a full JS stack + cross platform builds is certainly valuable, but of all the support emails I received, I've never had one about not being able to build on Windows. (That's not to say there isn't someone out there really trying hard to build on Windows :))

Let me investigate Gulp, and get back to you.

[ComFreek]

Thanks for your answer.

• Incremental builds are possible by watching files for changes and performing certain actions. See also:
  • https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp (header Incremental Builds)
  • https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/incremental-builds-with-concatenate.md
• Which features of Make do you consider mandatory?
• One feature, which Grunt lacks, is the ability to pipe results of tasks, i.e. no temporary files are needed. For example you wouldn't need to create build/diagram-grammar.js anymore. You could directly pipe the result of jspp (as long as there is a Gulp plugin) to UglifyJS.

I didn't have the time yet to dig deeper into Gulp, but I would certainly help porting the Makefile to Gulp as good as I can.

[ComFreek]

@bramp I've created a simple Gulpfile: https://github.com/ComFreek/js-sequence-diagrams (git clone ..., npm install, gulp [watch]). It does not do all things the Makefile did, but building, deploying and watching is already possible.

What do you think?

[bruriaP]

how can i run it in window

[bruriaP]

D:\diagramgulp>gulp build [12:00:58] Using gulpfile D:\diagramgulp\gulpfile.js [12:00:58] Starting 'build'...

events.js:160 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: Parse error on line 1: (function () { "use -^ Expecting '%%', 'START', 'LEX_BLOCK', 'ACTION', 'OPTIONS', 'PARSE_PARAM', 'LEFT', 'RIGHT', 'NONASSOC', got 'ID' at Object.parseError (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\ebnf-parser\parser.js:211:15) at Object.parse (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\ebnf-parser\parser.js:269:22) at Object.parse (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\ebnf-parser\ebnf-parser.js:5:55) at Jison_Generator [as constructor] (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\jison\lib\jison.js:83:30) at (anonymous function) [as constructor] (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\jison\lib\util\typal.js:23:28) at new o.constructor (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\jison\lib\util\typal.js:77:70) at new Jison_Generator (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\jison\lib\jison.js:1906:20) at DestroyableTransform._transform (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\gulp-jison\index.js:24:44) at DestroyableTransform.Transform._read (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\gulp-jison\node_modules\readable-stream\lib_stream_transform.js:184:10) at DestroyableTransform.Transform._write (D:\diagramgulp\node_modules\gulp-jison\node_modules\readable-stream\lib_stream_transform.js:172:12)

[bruriaP]

its not working

[ComFreek]

@bruriaP My fork is far behind this upstream repository, 117 commits to be precise. I would recommend building with the Makefile, see the first comment in this thread.