~/Running etherpad-lite from source on Windows

23 December 2011

1. Fork and clone etherpad-lite
2. Install node.js windows installer (MSI) from https://nodejs.org
   • This includes NPM (Node Package Manager)
   • Path to node.exe and npm.cmd are added to the path (restart console)
3. Download curl.exe (https://curl.haxx.se) and save it to somewhere in the path
4. Open the var folder and delete any files named minified*
5. Check the required versions of files:
   • jQuery, from bin/installDeps.sh
   • node.js, from bin/buildForWindows.sh
6. From the etherpad-lite directory, run the following commands (note this was tested using PowerShell, may be different for cmd.exe):
   • copy settings.json.template_windows settings.json
   • npm install
   • curl -lo static\js\jquery.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js
   • copy static\custom\js.template static\custom\index.template
   • copy static\custom\js.template static\custom\pad.template
   • copy static\custom\js.template static\custom\timeslider.template
   • copy static\custom\css.template static\custom\index.template
   • copy static\custom\css.template static\custom\pad.template
   • copy static\custom\css.template static\custom\timeslider.template
   • curl -lo bin\node.exe https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.5/node.exe
7. Run start.bat