Install problem with Windows XP #398

HaroldLowery · 2013-07-13T03:47:51Z

I’m new to node.js and I’m having a problem installing on Windows XP.
I have node installed and working and PostgreSQL working as well, but I cannot get node-postgres to install. I’ve searched the documentation and issues, but I’m baffled.

ref@0.1.3 install C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg\noe_modules\ref
node-gyp rebuild

C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg\node_modules\ref>node
"C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/rmdir
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
gyp ERR! stack File "(string)", line 1, in ?
gyp ERR! stack ImportError: No module named platform
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:802:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 5.1.2600
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js"
rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg\node_modules\ref
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.12
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.1
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0

brianc · 2013-07-15T14:30:21Z

2nd bug report related to the ref dependency not building on windows. Try forking this repo, change ref from dependencies to optionalDependencies in package.json and install from your fork url. If that install works, I'll change it here. the ref dependency is only used in rare cases of parsing binary mode results in pure javascript. The fact that it's a native dependency is what's failing to build.

pspi · 2013-07-15T18:28:36Z

I'm having the same problem with Windows 7.

brianc · 2013-07-15T19:04:40Z

@HaroldLowery @pspi can you run this command?

npm install git://github.com/brianc/node-postgres.git#issues/398

HaroldLowery · 2013-07-16T00:49:08Z

Brian,
Please excuse the close and reopen - I hit the wrong button.
I loaded Git version 1.8.3, then ran the command with these results:

ref@0.1.3 install C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg\node_modules\ref
node-gyp rebuild

C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg\node_modules\ref>node "C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
gyp ERR! stack File "", line 1, in ?
gyp ERR! stack ImportError: No module named platform
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:802:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 5.1.2600
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg\node_modules\ref
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.12
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.1
gyp ERR! not ok
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cloned/-/cloned-0.0.1.tgz
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing ref@0.1.3
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/rmdir
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/rmdir

pg@2.2.0 install C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg
node-gyp rebuild || (exit 0)

C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg>node "C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
gyp ERR! stack File "", line 1, in ?
gyp ERR! stack ImportError: No module named platform
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:802:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 5.1.2600
gyp ERR! command "node" "C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\pg
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.12
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.1
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm requires normalize-package-data@'~0.1.7' but will load
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\normalize-package-data,
npm WARN unmet dependency which is version 0.2.0
pg@2.2.0 node_modules\pg
â”œâ”€â”€ generic-pool@2.0.3
â””â”€â”€ buffer-writer@1.0.0 (async@0.2.9, cloned@0.0.1)

brianc · 2013-07-16T13:48:28Z

I think that output is indicating the install functioned correctly. Were you able to use the module after installing directly from the git URL? You cannot use the native bindings because you don't have a correct compiler environment set up, but the JavaScript bindings are what I use on all my projects anyway, so I wouldn't be concerned about that.

HaroldLowery · 2013-07-17T02:20:21Z

Agree that I want to use the JavaScript bindings, not the native.
When I run “npm ls pg” I appear to have pg loaded:

npm WARN unmet dependency C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\npm requires normalize-package-data@'~0.1.7' but will load
npm WARN unmet dependency C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node\node_modules\normalize-package-data,
npm WARN unmet dependency which is version 0.2.0
C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\node
â””â”€â”€ pg@2.2.0

I tried the “Simple” example code, but the require statement throws an error, apparently because it can't find pg.

module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'pg'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (C:\StrongTower\0Javascript\node.js\Prototype\Proto1\simple.js:7:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)

HaroldLowery · 2013-07-20T17:21:17Z

I got node-postgres working on my system by commenting out references to the ref module in ..\pg\lib\types\index.js . That's okay for what I'm working on, but probably isn't the right answer for this issue.

HaroldLowery closed this as completed Jul 16, 2013

HaroldLowery reopened this Jul 16, 2013

brianc closed this as completed in 910cc13 Jul 23, 2013

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