Installation issue on Windows - Uncaught exception file_open

[zommerfelds]

I'm just trying out Ceramic, but wasn't able to install it on my Windows machine:

With a specific directory:

czomm@chri-surface MINGW64 ~/dev
$ haxelib run ceramic setup --cwd C:/Users/czom/dev/ceramic
ceramic is not installed. It will be installed to: C:/Users/czom/dev/ceramic/ceramic
Install ceramic v2.0.2? (y/n)
y
Called from ? line 1
Called from Main.hx line 136
Called from Main.hx line 226
Called from Main.hx line 366
Called from /usr/local/lib/haxe/std/neko/_std/sys/io/File.hx line 53
Uncaught exception - [file_open,C:/Users/czom/dev/ceramic/ceramic-windows.zip]

Without a directory:

czomm@chri-surface MINGW64 ~/dev
$ haxelib run ceramic setup
ceramic is not installed. It will be installed to: C:/Users/czomm/ceramic
Install ceramic v2.0.2? (y/n)
y
Downloading ceramic-windows.zip...
Download complete : 342177155 bytes in 86s (3882.7KB/s)
Unzipping... (this may take a while)
Called from ? line 1
Called from Main.hx line 136
Called from Main.hx line 234
Called from Main.hx line 439
Called from /usr/local/lib/haxe/std/neko/_std/sys/io/File.hx line 53
Uncaught exception - [file_open,C:/Users/czomm/ceramic/.gitignore]

I also tried using PowerShell instead of Git Bash, with the same issue.

[zommerfelds]

OK tried again via cmd, weirdly I get yet another error...

C:\Users\czomm> haxelib run ceramic setup
ceramic is not installed. It will be installed to: C:/Users/czomm/ceramic
Install ceramic v2.0.2? (y/n)
y
Downloading ceramic-windows.zip...
Download complete : 37109760 bytes in 10s (3597.3KB/s)
Called from ? line 1
Called from Main.hx line 136
Called from Main.hx line 226
Called from Main.hx line 390
Called from Main.hx line 382
Called from /usr/local/lib/haxe/std/sys/Http.hx line 253
Called from Main.hx line 375
Uncaught exception - Custom(ssl network error)

[zommerfelds]

OK here is a workaround, which worked:

Dovwnload and install ceramic-windows-installer.exe from the latest release (e.g. https://github.com/ceramic-engine/ceramic/releases/tag/v2.0.2).

IMPORTANT: do not install it to a location with spaces (e.g. "Program Files"), otherwise you'll get the following problems:

And even after running link:

There is probably a bug somewhere in the Ceramic setup ;)

[zommerfelds]

OK to continue documenting my Windows journey: :)

PS C:\Users\czomm\dev> ceramic init --name ceramic-testproj
Project created at path: C:/Users/czomm/dev/ceramic-testproj
Updated clay hxml at: C:/Users/czomm/dev/ceramic-testproj/out/clay/web/project.hxml
PS C:\Users\czomm\dev> cd .\ceramic-testproj
PS C:\Users\czomm\dev\ceramic-testproj> ceramic clay run web --setup --assets
Will build with configuration Run for target web (Web).
Updated clay hxml at: C:/Users/czomm/dev/ceramic-testproj/out/clay/web/project.hxml
Update project assets
Update project icons
Run begin build hooks
Run haxe compiler
Error: Warning: Repository requires reformatting. To reformat, run `haxelib fixrepo`.
Error: Library linc_ogg version git is not installed
Error when running clay run with target web. (status = 1)

haxelib fixrepo fixed the first problem. Now for the second one I didn't find a solution yet.

[zommerfelds]

As a workaround I managed to build a Ceramic app inside a dev container:

https://github.com/zommerfelds/ceramic-devcontainer

This is only building and then serving the app via browser, not the fancy Electron + vscode solution.

[jeremyfa]

I suspect you are using an incompatible haxe/haxelib version. Ceramic is only expected to work with standard Haxe 4 and Haxe 4-compatible haxelib (so no Haxe 5, no Lix etc...)

That's right, better have Ceramic (and Ceramic projects) in a file path that doesn't have spaces for now, that's a known limitation.

Using the exe installer is the recommended option on windows. Need to update the setup guide to account for this.

[zommerfelds]

Ah I could have thought that you'd want to know that. Here are my versions:

Haxe: 4.3.7 (latest stable release)
Haxelib: 4.2.0 (latest stable release)

I downgraded Haxelib to 4.0.3 (recommended from Discord). And this worked, hurray!

I sent you ceramic-engine/ceramic-engine.github.io#4 to try to fix the documentation.