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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by itsananderson on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:22PM (#11392664)
99% of the painful Node stuff on Windows comes down to native packages. To even compile, you have to install Visual Studio. Then you have to hope the module developer has a build definition that even works for Windows.
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by edwinyzh on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:48AM (#11395824)
Correct! The last time I wanted to npm-install a CLI but it needs gyp, I'm not familiar with the node thingy and I gave up after several failed attemps including installing the VC++ runtime, Python, etc....
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