Win2k3 installation

[chalda]

I've spend a few hours now trying to get this to build on a windows machine, do you have any tips? There are all sorts of VS linker errors and a lot of the calls seem to be hardcoded for UNIX.

[santeriv]

+1
Some tips from someone who has done before windows specific configs with node-gyp would be nice...

I got this far with custom version of node-icu-charset : https://github.com/santeriv/node-icu-charset-detector/blob/patch-1/binding.gyp on Win 7 and Win 8

First of course downloaded/unzipped 32-bit icu release.zip \lib \bin \Include folders to my Visual Studio\VC http://site.icu-project.org/download/51#TOC-ICU4C-Download

in my package.json I have it like this:

  "dependencies": {
  ....
    "node-icu-charset-detector": "git://github.com/santeriv/node-icu-charset-detector.git#patch-1"
  },

Error was still (wrong i18n lib icuin.lib??)

node-icu-charset-detector.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ucsdet_close_51 [M:\apps\test\node_modules\node-icu-charset-detector\build\node-icu-charset-detector.vcxproj]
node-icu-charset-detector.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ucsdet_getConfidence_51 [M:\apps\test\node_modules\node-icu-charset-detector\build\node-icu-charset-detector.vcxproj]
...
M:\apps\test\node_modules\node-icu-charset-detector\build\Release\node-icu-charset-detector.node : fatal error LNK1120: 7 unresolved externals [M:\apps\test\node_modules\node-icu-charset-detector\build\node-icu-charset-detector.vcxproj]
gyp ERR! build error

[vBm]

Guess no one cares about Windows users ;x

[ForsakenHarmony]

download icu, unpack the includes to ~.node-gyp\5.10.0\include\node

getting this now though:

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '`icu-config --detect-prefix --ldflags`.lib' [C:\Users\ArmyOfAnarchi
sts\Programming\JS\node-icu-charset-detector\build\node-icu-charset-detector.vcxproj]