Install fails on Windows 10

[Inventsable]

Hello. I've installed this previously with no issue back when it was still using the ESTK, and recently came to revisit it but get an error when running npm install jsxbin:

> jsxbin@2.0.1 postinstall C:\Users\TRSch\OneDrive\Documents\Dev\NPMpackages\bombino-commands\node_modules\jsxbin
> tar -xzf esdebugger-core.tar.gz

esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Resources: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\TRSch\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Dev\\NPMpackages\\bombino-commands\\node_modules\\jsxbin\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Resources'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/esdcore: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\TRSch\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Dev\\NPMpackages\\bombino-commands\\node_modules\\jsxbin\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\esdcore'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/Current: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\TRSch\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Dev\\NPMpackages\\bombino-commands\\node_modules\\jsxbin\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\Current'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/adobe_caps.framework/Resources: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\TRSch\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Dev\\NPMpackages\\bombino-commands\\node_modules\\jsxbin\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\A\\Resources\\adobe_caps.framework\\Resources'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/adobe_caps.framework/adobe_caps: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\TRSch\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Dev\\NPMpackages\\bombino-commands\\node_modules\\jsxbin\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\A\\Resources\\adobe_caps.framework\\adobe_caps'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/adobe_caps.framework/Versions/Current: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\TRSch\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Dev\\NPMpackages\\bombino-commands\\node_modules\\jsxbin\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\A\\Resources\\adobe_caps.framework\\Versions\\Current'
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
npm WARN bombino-commands@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! jsxbin@2.0.1 postinstall: `tar -xzf esdebugger-core.tar.gz`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the jsxbin@2.0.1 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\TRSch\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-11-15T01_18_00_267Z-debug.log

Noticeably looks like it's trying to grab or do something with a Mac file structure and isn't reading my OS prior to know I'm using Windows. Any workaround to this?

[mzuzek]

Just hit the same problem - tar fails npm on Win10 (both cmd and PS):

PS D:\jsxbin.local> tar -xzf esdebugger-core.tar.gz

fails with:

esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Resources: Can't create '\\\\?\\D:\\jsxbin.local\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Resources'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/esdcore: Can't create '\\\\?\\D:\\jsxbin.local\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\esdcore'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/Current: Can't create '\\\\?\\D:\\jsxbin.local\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\Current'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/adobe_caps.framework/Resources: Can't create '\\\\?\\D:\\jsxbin.local\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\A\\Resources\\adobe_caps.framework\\Resources'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/adobe_caps.framework/adobe_caps: Can't create '\\\\?\\D:\\jsxbin.local\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\A\\Resources\\adobe_caps.framework\\adobe_caps'
esdebugger-core/mac/Frameworks/esdcore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/adobe_caps.framework/Versions/Current: Can't create '\\\\?\\D:\\jsxbin.local\\esdebugger-core\\mac\\Frameworks\\esdcore.framework\\Versions\\A\\Resources\\adobe_caps.framework\\Versions\\Current'
tar.exe: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

One workaround would be to:

1. clone repo locally to jsxbin.local
2. disable tar in package.json:29 setting "postinstall": ""
3. manually unpack esdebugger-core.tar.gz to replace it with esdebugger-core folder.
4. Install from local folder: npm install jsxbin.local

[mzuzek]

Problem cause

esdebugger-core.tar.gz contains folders named with colon (like Resources: or esdcore:, see errors in my previous comment) which are treated specially on Windows, see https://superuser.com/questions/730408/how-to-extract-tar-file-on-windows-when-the-filenames-include-a-colon.

Suggested solutions

• Fix the archive (remove colons from folder names) or create separate, platform specific archives.
• Fix postinstall tar command to handle colons on Windows properly (rename on the fly ?).

[vj-ome]

I've got the same problem. The tar file contains the symlinks for the mac directories, but the windows tar command does not support this symlink handling.

Suggested solutions:

• Don't use symlinks anymore for a multi platform tar
• or use two different files: one for windows and one for mac and just decompress the needed one.
• or just use the plain original folder Maybe the old solution from the 2.0.0 version would be simplest one. Maybe you should use some multi platform test environments.

[sammarks]

Another workaround is to use something like Cygwin to run the installation instead of running it in Windows by itself. That's what I was using when developing the original PR.

And yep it looks like @MikolajZuzek has the best solution. We just need to create a new archive that's windows-specific and update the postinstall scripts to call the proper one.

[runegan]

Fixed in #22