How to build from the source in windows ?

[Ashish Negi]

I want to build the node-webkit from the source in windows. What all should i download ?

when i do

 git clone https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit.git

it clones only master branch and not cef and others ? Are they not required ?

is there not one link to download it all ?

Does patched node at https://github.com/rogerwang/node contains the patched libuv and patched cef for its build ?

[Zeyi Zhao]

you can follow the Building node webkit, and everything you should do is there.

在 2013年8月26日星期一UTC+8下午5时27分05秒，Ashish Negi写道：

[Ashish Negi]

Thanks for the response. I am created node-webkit directory and created a .gclient file as shown in your link. I also did all the setting for depot_tools and others. running gclient sync gives me error :

remote: Counting objects: 2024928

remote: Counting objects: 2068705, done.

  No output for 30 seconds from command:

    git -c core.deltaBaseCacheLimit=2g clone --no-checkout --progress --template

=C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\git-templates https://github.com/zcbenz/chromium

.git C:\CEF\node-webkit\_gclient_src_kxm4fo;  cwd=C:\CEF\node-webkit

remote: Compressing objects:  18% (71703/378108)

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (378108/378108)

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (378108/378108), done.

Receiving objects:   2% (45097/2068705), 15.07 MiB | 1.06 MiB/s

Receiving objects:   2% (45945/2068705), 15.32 MiB | 16 KiB/s

Receiving objects:   2% (46211/2068705), 15.39 MiB | 6 KiB/s

Receiving objects:   2% (46480/2068705), 15.47 MiB | 4 KiB/s

fatal: early EOF

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

fatal: index-pack failed

error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\\gclient.py", line 1804, in <module>

    sys.exit(Main(sys.argv[1:]))

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\\gclient.py", line 1794, in Main

    return dispatcher.execute(OptionParser(), argv)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\subcommand.py", line 245, in execute

    return command(parser, args[1:])

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\\gclient.py", line 1590, in CMDsync

    return client.RunOnDeps('update', args)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\\gclient.py", line 1152, in RunOnDeps

    work_queue.flush(revision_overrides, command, args, options=self._options)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\gclient_utils.py", line 755, in run

    self.item.run(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\\gclient.py", line 627, in run

    self._used_scm.RunCommand(command, options, args, file_list)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\gclient_scm.py", line 151, in RunCommand

    return getattr(self, command)(options, args, file_list)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\gclient_scm.py", line 357, in update

    self._Clone(revision, url, options)

  File "C:\CEF\depot_tools\depot_tools\gclient_scm.py", line 879, in _Clone

    if os.listdir(tmp_dir):

WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:\\CEF\\nod

e-webkit\\_gclient_src_kxm4fo/*.*'

 

I have been successful in building chromium separately with these depot-tools so i think that would not be a problem.

[Zeyi Zhao]

what is the version of your git?the old version of git seems to have this bug. 

在 2013年8月30日星期五UTC+8下午2时17分52秒，Ashish Negi写道：

[Ashish Negi]

Thanks for your reponse.

When i do git --version from command line it gives 1.8.1.msysgit.1

When i go to the depot_tools git directory and check it gives 1.8.0.msysgit.0

[Ashish Negi]

Also, depot_tools are at the last in my path system variable PATH.

[Zeyi Zhao]

I recommend you to update your git and try again, if that doesn't work, there is a similar question posted on stackoverflow, maybe remote end hung up can help you.

在 2013年9月2日星期一UTC+8上午11时46分48秒，Ashish Negi写道：

[Ashish Negi]

I think that gclient uses its own git and tools, should i update that git or my system's git ?

[Ashish Negi]

How do i change the git of my gclient depot_tools. It has a git folder git-1.8.0_bin and others like git-utils and git_utils. Should i copy my C:\Program Files(86)\Git to that git-1.8.0_bin of gclient depot_tools. 

Also, Installation of Git does not ask for path of installation.

[Zeyi Zhao]

update your system's git may help

在 2013年9月2日星期一UTC+8下午5时19分25秒，Ashish Negi写道：

[Ashish Negi]

I updated my system's git and also set the http.postBuffer size but it is still not working. 

Do not you think that gclient must be using its own copy of git ?

When gclient runs git command, how can i find which git is being called ? can i find that out ? 

Or How can i set the http.postBuffer of the gclient's git ?

[Ashish Negi]

I went into the gclient directory and ran git-bash.bat and set the http.postBuffer property. I also made sure that this property remains even after i exit. But still no solution.

[Ashish Negi]

Is there any other way ? Like zip balls of different repos ?

[Zeyi Zhao]

I'm not sure about that, but I did some search about it, someone just retry gclient sync and it worked. maybe try more times?

在 2013年9月2日星期一UTC+8下午8时30分33秒，Ashish Negi写道：

[Ashish Negi]

I asked the question on stackoverflow. Can you explain what all codes i should download manually ? Is it only the chromium source code of node branch ? 

[Zeyi Zhao]

You may need to find out where you are stuck and run the command manually and then re-run gclient sync, it should be in the error info.

在 2013年9月3日星期二UTC+8下午5时34分26秒，Ashish Negi写道：