From ef6e00bcea6518b31244b2a5cf2fc861f60d8fec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Perry Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:27:24 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add windows instructions to fix node-gyp installs Change-Type: patch --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1584ef67..35b73725 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Requisites ##### Windows Support +Before installing resin-cli, you'll need a working node-gyp environment. If you don't already have one you'll see native module build errors during installation. To fix this, run `npm install -g --production windows-build-tools` in an admin console. + `resin sync` and `resin ssh` have not been thoroughly tested on the standard Windows cmd.exe shell. We recommend using bash (or a similar) shell, like Bash for Windows 10 or [Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/). If you still want to use `cmd.exe` you will have to use a package manager like MinGW or chocolatey. For MinGW the steps are: