Windows without cygwin

[tayknight]

Can someone clarify if this project currently works on Windows? I can't get it to compile (but there are other cases that address this). Is there a way to use the module without compiling it? Can I specify a binary?

Thanks.

[ncb000gt]

Take a look at GH-69 and GH-67. There are some other related issues for it with some history too.

I haven't personally verified this though. @shtylman do you know if this compiles on windows yet?

[defunctzombie]

No idea. I don't have a windows box readily available to test this on. I will just give my usual "install a linux vm" response ;)

On a serious note, I merged in some of the GH-69 changes and was hesitant of a new of the others.

[ncb000gt]

I saw your notes about those commits.

Ultimately that will, I think (if I understand include directives correctly), boil down to whether we want to include the source for openssl inside bcrypt. I've toyed with the idea, but not settled on anything concrete.

Thoughts?

[TooTallNate]

@ncb000gt I don't that should be necessary. v0.7.6 and up of node have a process.config object, which specifies whether OpenSSL was statically compiled into the binary or not (process.config.variables.node_use_openssl). With this it is possible to check a variable in your gyp file and act accordingly. On Windows, OpenSSL is always statically compiled into node.

[tayknight]

FWIW, this is still failing for me. I installed node-gyp.
'node-gyp configure' works fine.
'node-build' fails.

I put the output of node-gyp build in a gist https://gist.github.com/2238558.

c:\Users\wbw95k.ACULOCAL\Documents\GitRepositories\TrackingTally\node_modules\bcrypt\node.bcrypt.js>node-gyp build > out.txt
info it worked if it ends with ok
spawn C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe [ 'build/binding.sln',
'/clp:Verbosity=minimal',
'/nologo',
'/p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32' ]
ERR! Error: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe failed with exit code: 1
at Array.0 (C:\Users\wbw95k.ACULOCAL\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:176:25)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)
ERR! not ok

I noticed that binding-gyp has an include directory pointing to '<(node_root_dir)/deps/openssl/openssl/include'. node-gyp build complained it can't find this file. I have openssl installed, but there is no /deps/openssl on my system. Based on TooTallNate's comment above, I assume OpenSSL is compiled into node since i can require('crypto').

[ncb000gt]

Node will locally compile openssl unless you specify otherwise (on *nix machines at least). But, as I haven't spent much/any time with gyp or with this on Windows I really am unsure. Maybe I'll take a look at some point here since there seems to be enough demand for it.

[tayknight]

The _WIN32 def by weareu weareu@e50f6d2 on line 44 is not in the node_blf.h. When I added this node-build is able to continue (but still whines about pwd.h missing).

[jsalonen]

This library doesn't install on Windows (Win7 / 64-bit):

C:\Users\User1> cd test
C:\Users\User1\test> npm install bcrypt
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bcrypt
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bcrypt

> bcrypt@0.5.0 install C:\Users\User1\node_modules\bcrypt
> make build

Command make is not recognized.

[ncb000gt]

Make isn't available on windows. If you follow parts of the thread you'll note that people have tried to get this module working on windows through node-gyp. You might want to try one of the approaches from those threads and report back as to whether it works or not.

GH-69
GH-67
GH-66

[benjaminfisher]

Also attempting install via npm on Windows 7 64bit.

npm ERR! bcrypt@0.5.0 install: make build
npm ERR! cmd "/c" "make build" failed with 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the bcrypt@0.5.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the bcrypt package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.

[benjaminfisher]

Further clarification:
'make' is not recognized.

I'm attempting to install from mingw32 (not cygwin).