Error installing node-expat on Windows box with node v0.8.1 about node-expat HOT 7 CLOSED

I think node-waf will never be supported by windows so you need to wait untill there is a node-gyp version

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Any improvement for this with node-expat 1.6.1?

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I've tried yesterday evening... No luck. After the necessary download of Python, VisualStudioC++ and Expat for Windows, I run a cmd shell with VisualStudo in the path, set the PYTHON environment variable (it seems that requiring that much stuff to link to dynamic libraries is how NodeJS differenciate itself from Ruby and Java ;) ), set the EXPAT_HOME environment variable...

Then I run npm install node-expat and I get an error telling me it can't find expat.h. It seems it doesn't look under the EXPAT_HOME path. I've tried locating expat in a folder with no spaces in it but it makes no difference.

Is there a reason why the Windows expat binary and headers are not included in the node package? I guess this would make it easier to install.

I'll continue to see if I can make it work properly.

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@ukabu Including those files would violate modularity and make maintenance much harder.

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I made some changes in my fork ukabu/node-expat@b1e98b8 to make it possible to install it with npm on Windows.

To make it work, you still have to install VisualC++ Express, Python 2.7 and Expat. The PYTHON environment variable must be set to the python.exe complete path and EXPAT_HOME to where expat has been installed.

next you npm install git://github.com/ukabu/node-expat.git#easy-npm-install-on-windows (or you can put that as the version for the node-expat dependency in your package) and npm should build it without issues.

If npm can't find git, do : npm config set "git" "C:\path\to-git.exe"

Change the path to the full path where git is installed (you can use "where git" to find out).

Note that I did not verify if the linux and OSX builds still works. This is why I do not create a pull request (I would also like the build to download expat if it's not there, but I'm very green with gyp and not sure if it's a good idea).

One last thing to remember... After you built it, you have to make sure that expat.dll is in 1) c:\windows\system32, 2) your PATH environment variable or 3) copied into node_modules/node-expat/build/Release. Failing to do so will cause an error when you require('node-expat')

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Please give node-expat 2.0.0 a try. Do we need your patch?

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Thank you @astro. It is works.

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