I'm getting erros when I try to build "Zotero PDF/EPUB/HTML reader and annotator" from the source code.

[Gabriel]

System info:

- OS: Windows 11 22H2

- Node: v20.10.0 (I previously tried with v18.17.1)

Description:

I'm following the instructions found in https://github.com/zotero/reader but whenever I try to run "NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider npm i" and  "NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider npm run build" the terminal returns an error saying that "NODE_OPTION  is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".

Can anyone help me?

[Dan Stillman]

It would be NODE_OPTIONS, not NODE_OPTION, but you'd want to be doing this from an actual Linux/Unix-style terminal (git bash, Cygwin, WSL, etc.). It might be possible to set environment variable from the Windows command prompt, but we can't help with that.

[Gabriel]

Thank you!

I activated WSL 2 + Ubuntu 22.04 and this specific error was solved, however, the terminal throwed the following errors:

"npm WARN cleanup Failed to remove some directories [
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\@webassemblyjs',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rmdir '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\node_modules\@webassemblyjs'] {
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -4048,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'EPERM',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\@webassemblyjs'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ],
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rmdir '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\node_modules\@jridgewell\source-map\node_modules'] {  
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -4048,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'EPERM',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\@jridgewell\\source-map\\node_modules'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ],
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\tsd-jsdoc',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rmdir '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\node_modules\tsd-jsdoc\node_modules\typescript\loc\lcl'] {
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -4048,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'EPERM',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\tsd-jsdoc\\node_modules\\typescript\\loc\\lcl'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ],
npm WARN cleanup   [
npm WARN cleanup     '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\eslint-plugin-react',
npm WARN cleanup     [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rmdir '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\node_modules\eslint-plugin-react'] {
npm WARN cleanup       errno: -4048,
npm WARN cleanup       code: 'EPERM',
npm WARN cleanup       syscall: 'rmdir',
npm WARN cleanup       path: '\\\\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu-22.04\\home\\gabriel\\reader\\node_modules\\eslint-plugin-react'
npm WARN cleanup     }
npm WARN cleanup   ]
npm WARN cleanup ]
npm ERR! code EISDIR
npm ERR! syscall symlink
npm ERR! path \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\epubjs\epub.js
npm ERR! dest \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\node_modules\epubjs
npm ERR! errno -4068
npm ERR! EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, symlink '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\epubjs\epub.js' -> '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader\node_modules\epubjs'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\Gabriel\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2023-12-22T21_45_28_591Z-debug-0.log

> pdf-r...@2.0.0 build
> npm run build:pdf.js && npm run build:reader

'\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\gabriel\reader'
CMD.EXE foi iniciado tendo o caminho acima como pasta atual.
Não há suporte para caminhos UNC. Padronizando para pasta do Windows.
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path C:\Windows\package.json
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! enoent Could not read package.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Windows\package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent" 

Can anyone help me?

I'm actually trying to understand how to create highlights and annotations in PDF files and, as I didn't find any documentation, I believe I can study Zotero's source code instead. Can you please give directions about that? Will I find all the neccessary information in the "Zotero PDF/EPUB/HTML reader and annotator" repo?