npm install issues

[RenzoMarchisi]

C:\Users\user\janusweb>npm install --only=prod
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE package: '[email protected]',
npm WARN EBADENGINE required: { node: '0.10 || 0.12 || 4 || 5' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE current: { node: 'v17.4.0', npm: '8.3.1' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }

[email protected] postinstall
./utils/init.sh

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\Users\user\janusweb
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c ./utils/init.sh

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2022-01-27T19_04_15_622Z-debug-0.log

[jbaicoianu]

The build process currently doesn't work directly in Windows, since it uses shell scripts for some of the build steps. The recommended way of building in Windows is to use WSL (I use Ubuntu, but other distros may work as well), and follow the Linux build instructions.

Also, it's a bit strange that npm is trying to install karma even with the --only=prod parameter, karma is only listed in devDependencies, so it should be skipped unless you want to run the unit tests (which are a bit out of date). You might try with --production instead, it seems the argument has changed a couple times over the years.

[RenzoMarchisi]

ill give that a shot then thanks

[RenzoMarchisi]

wsl did not seem to wat to work

[madjin]

wsl worked for me, just tested and was able to build 1.5.42 without any issues following same instructions as README