Windows Support.

[scottmas]

Edit by octalmage:

Windows is completely supported! Just install from npm.

Known issues:

All known issues resolved!

• getPixelColor returns "000000" no matter what in my VM, not sure if it's broken. Fixed in getPixelColor bug fix. #43.
• The sqrt functions in rgb.h cause errors, currently commented out in the windows-2 branch. Fixed in 8730e94.
• The mssleep function needs to be cross platform. Replaced with microsleep.
• moveMouse and moveMouseSmooth wouldn't work in my virtual machine. I'm guessing this is because it's a VM, but it would be cool if someone could confirm. This is working!

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Original comment:
Hey Octa, I'm trying to use your add on for a node webkit project I'm working on but wasn't able to get very far since the package gets stuck on my windows machine while running the "node-gyp configure" command, just sitting there endlessly. I thought possible your NPM might not be up to date with this github repo, but still the same behavior when I cloned the repo and built it from scratch.

I notice in binding.gyp that your only condition is 'OS' == "mac". I'm not intimately familiar with building native node modules, so does this mean the package simply does not support window builds right now?

[scottmas]

So my original question was actually resolved once I manually downloaded some nodejs.org packages (don't think it had anything to do with robotjs). And it appears from your source code at least that the library is designed to support windows machines.

However, now I have a different problem :(, the "node-gyp build" task breaks when run and I get a whole string of errors. Are our Windows build environment must be different? I'm running node v.0.10.30 on Windows 7 using Python 2.78 and the latest visual studio 2013.

I could post the complete error log if you would find that helpful, but to give you a sense, I'm getting errors such as the following:

..\src\ms_stdint.h(102): error C2371: 'int_fast16_t' : redefinition; different basic types [..\build\robotjs.vcxproj]
--or--
..\src\robotjs.cc(87): error C2065: 'MMKeyFlags' : undeclared identifier [..\build\robotjs.vcxproj]
--or--
..\src\robotjs.cc(142): error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'info' [..\build\robotjs.vcxproj]

Note, I'm also using node v0.10.30. Based on the feature enhancement you recently added to use the nan package in order to support newer versions, it seems likely this could be the case. Is this correct?

It seems to be a possible combination of missing libraries and syntax errors. Also, note that these errors occur whether building from npm or building directly from the repo.

[octalmage]

Hey Scott!

My apologies for the delay. I've honestly never tried to build RobotJS on Windows and it's probably just missing a few libraries. I had a similar issue on Mac until I added that conditional.

I'll try to take a look today (need to set up a VM), and I may need your help testing a few things!

[scottmas]

That would be awesome. Let me know how I could be useful with testing or something. As far as c++ goes, I'm sadly a complete n00b :(

[octalmage]

I haven't forgot about this! I just really need a windows build environment.

[octalmage]

Spent a few hours on this just now, didn't have much luck.

Here's the errors I'm getting on Windows XP using Visual Studio 2010:

c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\os.h(23): warning C4005: 'STRICT' : macro redefinition
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\include\windef.h(16) : see previous definition of 'STRICT'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\ms_stdint.h(101): error C2371: 'int_fast8_t' : redefinition; different basic types
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\stdint.h(33) : see declaration of 'int_fast8_t'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\ms_stdint.h(102): error C2371: 'int_fast16_t' : redefinition; different basic types
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\stdint.h(34) : see declaration of 'int_fast16_t'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\ms_stdint.h(106): error C2371: 'uint_fast16_t' : redefinition; different basic types
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\stdint.h(38) : see declaration of 'uint_fast16_t'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\keycode.h(134): error C2059: syntax error : '}'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\keycode.h(134): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '}'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\keycode.h(134): error C2059: syntax error : '}'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\keypress.h(15): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\keypress.h(15): error C2447: '{' : missing function header (old-style formal list?)
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\rgb.h(87): error C2668: 'sqrt' : ambiguous call to overloaded function
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\math.h(589): could be 'long double sqrt(long double)'
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\math.h(541): or       'float sqrt(float)'
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\math.h(127): or       'double sqrt(double)'
          while trying to match the argument list '(int)'
c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\robotjs\robotjs\src\rgb.h(103): error C2668: 'sqrt' : ambiguous call to overloaded function
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\math.h(589): could be 'long double sqrt(long double)'
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\math.h(541): or       'float sqrt(float)'
          C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\math.h(127): or       'double sqrt(double)'
          while trying to match the argument list '(int)'
..\src\robotjs.cc(175): error C2065: 'MMKeyFlags' : undeclared identifier
..\src\robotjs.cc(175): error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'flags'
..\src\robotjs.cc(175): error C2065: 'flags' : undeclared identifier
..\src\robotjs.cc(175): error C2065: 'MOD_NONE' : undeclared identifier
..\src\robotjs.cc(179): error C2065: 'flags' : undeclared identifier
..\src\robotjs.cc(179): error C3861: 'tapKey': identifier not found
..\src\robotjs.cc(193): error C2664: 'typeString' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char *' to 'const v8::Arguments &'
          Reason: cannot convert from 'char *' to 'const v8::Arguments'
          No constructor could take the source type, or constructor overload resolution was ambiguous

This isn't too terrible, and at least it's a start!

[octalmage]

@plasmashadow was working on this today, hopefully he had better luck.