gRPC and Nodejs under Windows?

[Rob Cecil]

I can see gRPC has a port for C#, and Nodejs. But what about Nodejs installed on Windows. Can it also run gRPC ?

Thanks!

[Michael Lumish]

We do plan to have the Node.js gRPC library work on Windows. However, at the moment the binding.gyp file is not set up to build the library on Windows.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:13 AM Rob Cecil <rob....@gmail.com> wrote:

I can see gRPC has a port for C#, and Nodejs. But what about Nodejs installed on Windows. Can it also run gRPC ?

Thanks!

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[alexand...@teamdev.com]

As I understand, there is no way to use this lib under Windows. 

I built it on Linux and executed a simple sample from gRPC repo successfully. Then I copied it to Windows and the sample execution failed:

C:\node-example>node greeter_server
C:\node-example\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:83
        throw e
        ^

Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
C:\node-example\node_modules\grpc\build\Release\grpc.node
    at Error (native)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at bindings (C:\node-example\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:76:44)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\node-example\node_modules\grpc\src\client.js:43:31)
    at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:452:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)

So, the only way to use it under Window is to set up the "binding.gyp" file to build the library on Windows. 

Could you please inform me how soon are you going to do this? Thank you.

[Michael Lumish]

I have opened an issue to get the Node library working on Windows: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/3922. I believe I can get it working this quarter.

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