Running wekan as an standalone program on Windows

As you may know, there isn’t any decent client program for kanaban, wekan is a very good candidate. On Linux docker can be used since it does not have much of a overhead and can be installed with few lines of commands. However on windows unfortunately it’s quite difficult if not impossible. I opened up this issue the share my work and let anyone interested to join. So i’m trying to run wekan as an standalone windows program with no dependencies (all dependencies included). eventually it can be packaged as an windows installer msi file.

Here is the steps i’ve taken:

1. Created a wekan folder
2. Downloaded the latest version and extracted in bundle folder inside the wekan folder: wekan\bundle
3. Installed nodejs 0.10.48 from here, copied the installed files to wekan\nodejs
4. Downloaded the MongoDB portable and extract it as wekan\MongoDBPortable
5. Created the following windows batch file:

SET MONGO_URL=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/wekan
SET ROOT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8081/
SET MAIL_URL=smtp://user:[e-mail]:25/
SET MAIL_FROM=[e-mail]
SET PORT=8081
MongoDBPortable\MongoDBPortable.exe
cd bundle
..\nodejs\node.exe main.js
pause

1. Wekan did not run even though i downloaded the binary release.

cd bundle\programs\server
..\..\..\nodejs\npm install

Error (npm-debug.zip) :

Missing win32-x64-v8-3.14\fibers.node

So right now i’m following the new guide suggested by @xet7 to overcome the problem.

[xet7]

@sinasalek

wekan-0.11.1-rc1.tar.gz has been compiled on Linux, I think it does not directly work on Windows.

I’ll try to compile Windows version and see if those could be combined, or have Windows version in .zip file.

[xet7]

Moved to #710