Build fails on Windows because of node-waf

[mgcrea]

Does this package is intended to run on Windows? Looks like node team has decided to switch from waf to gyp for building native modules (cf. http://botsikas.blogspot.fr/2011/12/nodejs-modules-cross-platform.html).

Any chance you would update this very promising plugin so that it can be built on windows?

Edit: Looks like you are indeed using gyp & it's just a dependency that fails to build (dtrace-provider). So this issue is probably irrelevant.

Edit2: Maybe you could do some npm tweaking to consider dtrace as optional (check : https://github.com/mcavage/node-restify/issues/100#issuecomment-4686124)

Regards!

[calmh]

Hmm. I haven't tested it on Windows, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. It doesn't contain any code that needs to be built, only JavaScript.

//jb

(Sent from my phone - please excuse brevity and typos.)

On 9 maj 2012, at 16:54, Olivier Louvignes reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Does this package is intended to run on Windows? Looks like node team has decided to switch from waf to gyp for building native modules (cf. http://botsikas.blogspot.fr/2011/12/nodejs-modules-cross-platform.html).

Any chance you would update this very promising plugin so that it can be built on windows?

Regards!

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[mgcrea]

Yes, but it does require the package "dtrace-provider" that requires compilation via "node-waf".

[calmh]

Dtrace-provider will likely not build on Windows, but it's just a dependency of one of the devdependencies (snmpjs). These should not be pulled in at all when snmp-native is used as a dependency itself. If it's anyway problematic, feel free to edit package.json to remove snmpjs - it's only used for the integration tests.

On 10 maj 2012, at 19:32, Olivier Louvignes reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Yes, but it does require the package "dtrace-provider" that requires compilation via "node-waf".

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[calmh]

To clarify;

Using snmp-native as a dependency on Windows should work just fine. If it doesn't open an issue on whatever happens.

Manually installing snmp-native on Windows might fail because npm will try to install the devDependencies, which require dtrace-provider. To get around that, edit node_modules/snmp-native/package.json to remove the snmpjs devDependency, rerun npm install in node_modules/snmp-native.

[calmh]

I pushed a version 1.0.5 that doesn't include the dev dependencies in the shrinkwrap; possibly that is what you were hitting. Also, if installing locally, a "npm install --no-dev" will avoid pulling in the dev dependencies, avoiding the dtrace issue.