How to install now.js on Windows

Question

I'm trying to install now.js on Windows using the node package manager but I get errors. Here's what I have:

Can you tell me what's wrong with my installation? I supposed all the dependencies are already being fetched before installing now.js That's why I didn't do npm install node-proxy and npm install socket.io

Answer 1

For Windows developers trying to install now js. Here's the answer: http://blog.nowjs.com/running-nowjs-natively-on-windows

Sometimes it's really useful to look on the issues at the projects github page

Answer 2

From the error message it looks like you're missing the 'make' command. You can download a full suite of tools from cygwin.com. Pay attention to the following:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.what-packages

Answer 3

Currently now isn't supported on Windows although they are working on it (see their issues). The issue does say there is a branch which you can install but it seems to then break on node-proxy.

You may be able to work around it using cygwin but npm doesn't support cygwin and I remember having a lot of problems with it.

I'd say your best bet (if you can't install a Linux VM or use a Mac) is to check out Cloud9 and use that for development.