Third party 'espruino-cli' tool is dead...

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2017-11-20 by ancienthero

Sad to say, but look like Command line tool is dead for me, I've spent 5 h or so trying to fix it..

I've been using command line. I prefer my own editor and I'm not a fan of copying large chunks of code from my editor into web IDE...

Updated npm packages and tried to connect like always, but got this:
https://gist.github.com/ancienthero/1e6d2e66350f20a393d73c0caa3ffda4

Seemed like espruino-cli I decided to update espruino-cli but I got this:
https://gist.github.com/ancienthero/16f801d83d871b1e0b8997d0b386146a

Please help!

I've opened issues espruino/EspruinoTools#66 , gzip/esp-cli#2

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-11-20 by @gfwilliams

Looks like the serialport module won't install for you. You must have changed something - any idea what? Did you install a new node version?

Can you try 'npm install serialport' and see if it completes without errors? If not perhaps you could contact the node serialport project and ask for help?

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-11-21 by @gfwilliams

Ok, I got confused - this is about gzip's espruino-cli after all. I have similar problems when installing it and I think it's to do with espruino-cli using an out of date serialport module (1.2.5) when we're up to at least version 4.0 now.

Try sudo npm install -g espruino and use the espruino tool and not espruino-cli. That's the one I actually maintain, and contains a whole bunch of extra features. It's basically got all the Web IDE's backend packaged into a CLI.

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2017-11-21 by ancienthero

yes, updated node and npm...

Inspired by your suggestion I decided to reinstall espruino and espruino-cli, I believe there is something wrong with espruino-cli itself.

Anyways, a clean install of espruino npm package and fixing XCode has solved it.
As I noticed espruino package goes with espruino-cli and installing espruino-cli by itself creates havoc. Not mentioning that node-gyp has its own problems with Xcode

Thank you for help!

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2017-11-21 by tbd

@ancienthero any tips to fix the node-gpy Xcode problems ?

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2017-11-21 by ancienthero

@TBD Yes, after hours of trial and error, this finally worked for me:

Install Xcode
Run sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

unfortunately it requires to install Xcode (5GB or so).

here is full thread: nodejs/node-gyp#569

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-11-21 by @gfwilliams

It seems that Node.js has been pushing ahead with NAPI modules (that don't need a recompile for each version of Node.js) - so hopefully at some point in the next year we won't have this nightmare to worry about :(