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Use your microcontroller with p5.js
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Cannot install p5bots-server on MacOSX #10

Closed jvouillon closed 8 years ago

jvouillon commented 8 years ago

Hi, trying to install p5bots-server on MacOSX 10.11.2. Got this error:

"Failed at the serialport@1.7.4 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'. Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. If you do, this is most likely a problem with the serial port package..."

Node and npm are up to date. Is there a way to fix that problem or am I missing something?

Thanks.

sarahghp commented 8 years ago

It's probably code on my end that needs to be updated. I'll be able to look at it this weekend but not before then. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:43 jvouillon notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, trying to install p5bots-server on MacOSX 10112 Got this error:

"Failed at the serialport@174 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build' Make sure you have the latest version of nodejs and npm installed If you do, this is most likely a problem with the serial port package"

Node and npm are up to date Is there a way to fix that problem or am I missing something?

Thanks

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jvouillon commented 8 years ago

No rush! :-) Thanks!

benIflock commented 8 years ago

hi i am also struggling to install the package with npm on a mac with the same error as above

is there anyway to install manually?

thanks

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sarahghp commented 8 years ago

Yes, you can download this repo, cd into the p5bots-server directory, npm install and then run the app.js file. This may still result in the serialport error, however; I think there is a version conflict.

Can you let me know @benIflock & @jvouillon your npm & node versions?

Fixing this is still totally on my list, but grad school is eating my brain a little. If you resolve the conflict before I get to it, please feel free to open a PR.

jvouillon commented 8 years ago

Hi, my versions are: node -v v5.4.1 npm -v 3.5.3

benIflock commented 8 years ago

hi - thanks for that

yeah got the same error with the serialport - i'm running npm 2.14.12 and node v4.2.6

will have a dig around see if i can find a solution....

sarahghp commented 8 years ago

I suspect it is because your node is up-to-date and the older version of serialport is choking on it. Do one of you want to update serialport and see if that fixes things?

benIflock commented 8 years ago

i managed to get everything running with latest version of serialport and using limzykenneth's fork from a couple of days ago thanks

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limzykenneth commented 8 years ago

@benIflock Cheers. I made it a bit easier to use my fork by separating out p5bots-server into its own repo so in package.json you can simply add 

"p5bots-server": "git+https://github.com/limzykenneth/p5bots-server.git"

to the dependencies and npm install.