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jperkin / node-rpio

Raspberry Pi GPIO library for node.js
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Can't install on Windows #90

Closed Cyberuben closed 5 years ago

Cyberuben commented 5 years ago

I'm not able to install this repo on Windows. I'm running node v10.12.0, npm v10.12.0, node-gyp v3.8.0.

The errors I'm prompted with are the following:

Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
  bcm2835.c
c:\users\ruben\projects\rpi\node_modules\rpio\src\bcm2835.c(16): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/mman.h': No such file or directory [C:\Users\Ruben\Projects\RPI\node_modules\rpio\build\rpio.vcxproj]

I can't seem to find any issues regarding this on Windows, so I'm not sure if what I'm doing is supported at all. I know there's a mock option, but that's of no use if I can't get it to install.

jperkin commented 5 years ago

Yeh this module doesn't support Windows I am afraid. It is currently tied heavily to the Linux kernel. Cross platform support is something I am passionate about and would be fantastic to have, but would be a lot of work even for a different POSIX platform. Windows would be completely different, and I have no Windows kernel programming experience. I'll close this one out for now, but if someone wanted to implement Windows support via a pull request at some point I would be very interested! Thanks.

Cyberuben commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the quick response. It should work on any Linux environment? If so, I'll try developing this on a VM.

jperkin commented 5 years ago

Yes, it should, if not let me know!