Even if we talk about the developper population, I would say that there is easily more than 50% of them on Windows.
But ok, let’s try to use WSL. Did you ever tried to lunch ACA with run.bat build_start + the front with WSL ? Your computer is literraly burning. I have 16GB of RAM and it’s not enough.
But anyway I tried both on a standard Linux and WSL.
On Linux I did :
- unzip source code alfresco-digital-workspace-2.9.1-source-code.zip
- Download of last version of NPM and node with their official repository and add it to my PATH
- npm ci
- npm start content-ee --> an error occurs: a-tmeedendorp@adv220seplnx01:~/test-adw$ npm start content-ee
alfresco-content-ee-apps@2.9.1 start
NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=8192 ${NG_CLI:-nx} serve
nx run content-ee:serve
Executing prestart hook for content-ee
Running command: mkdir
Running command: mkdir
Running command: cp
Running command: /home/a-tmeedendorp/test-adw/apps/content-ee/remove-me-setup.js
Running command: ./node_modules/.bin/envsub
Running command: ./node_modules/.bin/ajv
error: /home/a-tmeedendorp/test-adw/apps/content-ee/.tmp/app.config.json: Unexpected token $ in JSON at position 363
Interpolated command: ./node_modules/.bin/ajv
Interpolated arguments: [
"validate",
"-s",
"./node_modules/@alfresco/adf-core/app.config.schema.json",
"-d",
"/home/a-tmeedendorp/test-adw/apps/content-ee/.tmp/app.config.json",
"--errors=text",
"--verbose"
]
On WSL (I installed Ubuntu through Microsoft Store) :
Did the same, unzip sources, download node and npm. and run npm ci as written in the README.md. I tried it again just now on ADW 3.0 sources. It starts to build and download and then I have hundreds of errors like this:
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\os-locale\node_modules\execa\license'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\nx\node_modules\restore-cursor\index.js'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\nx\node_modules\is-fullwidth-code-point\index.js'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\nx\node_modules\jsonfile\utils.js'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\nx\node_modules\has-flag\index.js'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\nx\node_modules\cli-cursor\index.js'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, open '\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\theo\adw3\node_modules\npm-pick-manifest\node_modules\npm-package-arg\package.json'
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR UNKNOWN: unknown error, write
npm ERR! code EBADF
npm ERR! syscall write
npm ERR! errno -4083
npm ERR! EBADF: bad file descriptor, write
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\tmeedendorp\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-11-10T14_37_20_067Z-debug-0.log
So yes even on Linux I don’t manage to make it works. And I don’t see anything on the documentation about WSL. It’s not obvious that of course we should not use Windows to compile it, especially since it works for ACA.
Thank you
