NRF24 NPM Install Error

[Frijol]

Error from forum

Got this error installing NRF24 on my Windows Desktop. OSX laptop worked fine.

npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/rf-nrf24
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/rf-nrf24
npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/pi-spi
npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/queue-async
npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/pi-pins
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/pi-spi
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/pi-pins
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/queue-async

pi-spi@0.8.7 install D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node
_modules\pi-spi
node-gyp rebuild
D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node_modules\pi-spi>node "C
:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\....\node_modules\nod
e-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build,
please add the "/m" switch.
  spi_binding.cc
..\spi_binding.cc(33): warning C4200: nonstandard extension used : zero-sized a
rray in struct/union [D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node
modules\pi-spi\build\spibinding.vcxproj]
          Cannot generate copy-ctor or copy-assignment operator when UDT contai
  ns a zero-sized array
..\spi_binding.cc(66): fatal error C1021: invalid preprocessor command 'warning
' [D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node_modules\pi-spi\bui
ld\spi_binding.vcxproj]
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\msbuild.exe fail
ed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\
npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess.handle.onexit (childprocess.js:807:
12)
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" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node_modules\p
i-spi
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.28
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.13.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/epoll
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/epoll
npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/bindings
npm http GET registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/bindings
npm http 304 registry.npmjs.org/nan

epoll@0.1.7 install D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node_
modules\pi-pins\node_modules\epoll
node-gyp rebuild
D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node_modules\pi-pins\node_m
odules\epoll>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\..
..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build,
please add the "/m" switch.
  epoll.cc
  Generating code
  Finished generating code
  epoll.vcxproj -> D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\node_modules\rf-nrf24\node_mo
  dules\pi-pins\node_modules\epoll\build\Release\epoll.node
npm ERR! pi-spi@0.8.7 install: node-gyp rebuildnpm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the pi-spi@0.8.7 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the pi-spi package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls pi-spi
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nod
ejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "rf-nrf24"
npm ERR! cwd D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\nrf24
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.28
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     D:\Projects\Tessel\tessel-code\nrf24\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Any ideas?

[natevw]

Yeah, this is https://github.com/natevw/pi-spi/issues/10 which is pretty low priority because even if you could "build" it on Windows it wouldn't work.

Tessel is a special situation, because you need to install on a different platform than you actually will be using it on! For now you might just take the "pi-spi" and "pi-pins" deps out of the version published for Tessel if @jiahuang hasn't already?

[jiahuang]

Fixed for tessel.

[FriedCircuits]

Tested and changes worked on Tessel.

[natevw]

Great, thanks for the feedback! I'll close this since the rest of the story here can be tracked in #15.