Koop-on-Windows problems

[slibby]

git clone koop cd koop npm install

currently does not work on Windows, or at least on my flavor of Windows (8.1 x64). This issue will track various efforts to figure out why and how to fix it :8ball:

fixes: bunyan from /koop: npm install bunyan

Issues encountered with node modules:

• bunyan - issue with dtrace-provider
• contextify
• spatialite
• mapnik 1.4.10 - pre-built binary not available for this platform, fail on c:\Esri\Github\koop2\koop\node_modules\koop-server\node_modules\mapnik>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modik --configuration=Release --module_name=mapnik --version=1.4.10 --major=1 --minor=4 --patch=10 --runtime=node --node_abi=node-v11 --platform=win32 -- --module_main=./lib/mapnik.js --host=https://node-mapnik.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ --module_path=c:\Esri\Github\koop2\koop\node_modules\koop-server4.10/ --package_name=mapnik-v1.4.10-node-v11-win32-x64.tar.gz --staged_tarball=build\stage\v1.4.10\mapnik-v1.4.10-node-v11-win32-x64.tar.gz --hosted_p/v1.4.10/ --hosted_tarball=https://node-mapnik.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/v1.4.10/mapnik-v1.4.10-node-v11-win32-x64.tar.gz 'mapnik-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. gyp: Call to 'mapnik-config --libs' returned exit status 1. while trying to load binding.gyp
• pg npm install pg fails with error 'pg_config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. gyp: Call to 'pg_config --includedir' returned exit status 1. while trying to load binding.gyp to fix pg issue:
• install postgresql for Windows
• ensure that postresql/bin directory is added to PATH
• npm install pg --msvs_version=2012 will now succeed with warnings.

_tips and fixes so far_

• run cmd as Administrator during installs
• I was able to successfully install contextify after installing Visual Studio 2012 by running npm install contextify --msvs_version=2012

[springmeyer]

https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik/issues/290#issuecomment-57762206

[slibby]

Windows is working in koop-sample app: https://github.com/koopjs/koop-sample-app

[ungoldman]

Sorry, closed all koop-server issues as this repo is deprecated. We moved the logic into the main koop module. Should work a lot better now. As @slibby says, please check out https://github.com/koopjs/koop-sample-app for an updated example.