Running node.js on windows without using Cygwin
Finally node.js is available as a windows binary without requiring Cygwin to be installed.
As of writing this post you can download the node.js binary 0.5.6. Currently npm does not work with node.js on windows. You need to download and use ryppi.py instead of npm. It works similar to npm but requires python. To setup node.js first set the PATH and NODE_PATH to the where you have copied node.exe.
It is better to set these environment variables in the System Properties so that you don't have to set these variables every time. Follow the following steps to do that.
As of writing this post you can download the node.js binary 0.5.6. Currently npm does not work with node.js on windows. You need to download and use ryppi.py instead of npm. It works similar to npm but requires python. To setup node.js first set the PATH and NODE_PATH to the where you have copied node.exe.
set PATH=%PATH%;c:\node
set NODE_PATH=c:\node
It is better to set these environment variables in the System Properties so that you don't have to set these variables every time. Follow the following steps to do that.
- Right-click Computer, and then click Properties.
- Click the Advanced system settings in the left side bar.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Click Environment variables.
- Append the node path to the PATH variable
- Create a new variable NODE_PATH and set it to the path where node is installed
python ryppi.py install socket.io express
Am assuming here that python is setup using the installer which also will also setup the path of python in the environment variables.
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