Blockchain on errors: Windows challenge.
I `ll tell you a little secret:
my addiction to Windows got me to the point of no return.
Should I probably consider Ubuntu 18?When my friend Evgeny and I both working on the same blockchain project, what is dragging my feet is the fact I often get unpredictable errors on my Windows machine (he believes in Mac ).
Oh, well, mea culpa.
There are certain steps one should take to adjust the Windows environment. I wanted to verify them and produced a transcript from Dapp University, my favorite YouTube blockchain channel.
It took me a while to find a trustful source of the information while I was learning Solidity. Some of the videos are outdated, some are too complicated, some don`t make sense.
Gregory, the owner of the channel, does a brilliant job keeping us updated on all aspects of blockchain development and even beyond that.
Again, I wanted to demonstrate those steps and verify they work for me.
Let`s rock-n-roll.
1. Install chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) package manager for Windows.
2. choco install nodejs
NOTE! Please check if you have node in your environmental variables under Path (e.g. C:\Program Files\nodejs\)
3. choco install python
4. Install visual studio 2015
NOTE! During the installation, select the custom one, and click on C++ under programming languages (select web installer)
5. Run node-gyp
npm install --global node-gyp@3.6.2
NOTE ! This line of code above gave me an error, so please proceed with the steps below:
npm install --production windows-build-tools
npm install web3, and finally
npm audit fix
6. Configure python
npm config set python python2.7 --global
7. Configure path to the executable
npm config set python C:\Python38\python.exe --global
(verify it exists under C:\Program Files\Python27)
8. Set the version for Microsoft Visual Studio
npm config set msvc_version 2015 --global
9.Update VS target path
Change ChocolateyLastPathUpdate in environmental variables
to VCTargetsPath under variable name and variable value to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140
Verify it is set by typing in powershell : echo $env:VCTargetsPath
10. install git
choco install git
11. install truffle
npm install --global truffle@5.0.5
12. install react
npm install --global create-react-app@2.1.3
Additionally, here is link from another source that duplicates
the whole process.
https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/issues/1783
I hope those steps made the installation process less painful. Please let me know if you were getting an error, or just have a question we can then work on your issue together!
Happy coding, Sergei Stadnik
