How to build on Windows 10?

I’m trying to follow the building instructions using Windows 10. But I get warnings / failures at various points.

Below is the out-of-the-box experience, with the problems shown.

The first issue seems to be the use of ln to create links, which Windows doesn’t understand. I did try running the script in Powershell (hoping it had a mapped command for ln) but this didn’t work. Also tried editing the point where ln is called to use mklink instead, but this didn’t seem to solve the problem either.

So my question is whether there is a way to build this on Windows 10? I am new to npm and gulp, so am wondering if I have missed something obvious?

Steps I followed:

Using Command prompt, as administrator.

npm install Issues warnings at start: And warnings at end:

gulp setup-project Fails when ln is called:

[yumetodo]

I think this projecct shoud publish pre-build files because this project is passing travis-cl. To fundamentally solve the issue like “I fail to build this. How to do?”, it is only way, I think.

[appetere]

I had to give up trying to make it build on Windows, as don’t have enough knowledge.

I have tried spinning up an Ubuntu instance on Amazon EC2, but again it won’t build out of the box.

sudo gulp setup-project fails initially with /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory. This I managed to get round by using sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node nodejs /usr/bin/nodejs 100

Running setup-project again then gives:

I am a newcomer to Unix, so realise I might be doing something wrong. But is there a particular flavour of Unix that the build-scripts should work on out of the box?

Using Amazon EC2 I have a choice (in the free tier) of

• Amazon Linux
• Red Hat
• SUSE Linux
• Ubuntu (what I’ve tried)

Any suggestions on which to use, or where else to build this? I don’t have access to an Apple Mac unfortunately.