These instructions last updated Jully 17, 2013. Fluxtream developers have successfully installed the pieces needed for Fluxtream development on Windows 7 (4 or 8 Gb of RAM), and on Windows XP.
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Download Windows Installer from http://nodejs.org/#download and follow the install instructions
The Windows Node.js installer by default will install the package manager and add its executable to the PATH variable. This is exactly what we want.
Once node.js is installed, use the Node package manager to install less: . Double check that the command shell you are using has a %PATH% variable which includes the path to npm (by default c:\Program Files\nodejs\) before executing:
npm install -g less
Checkout, set up, and build the datastore
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Add enviroment variables to each startup option setting TARGET_ENV=local
-In the Startup/Connection tab of the first dialog for adding the Tomcat Server, do the following with each of the Run, Debug, and Coverage startup options in the top section selected:
-Find the middle section under Pass environment variables
-Click the + along the right edge
-Add TARGET_ENV as Name and local as value
-Add JAVA_OPTS as -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms256m -Xmx2048m -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
Setup properties files
Copy the sample properties files to their real location:
-Within your fluxtream-app directory, find the fluxtream-web/src/main/resources/ subdirectory. Copy the .properties files from the samples subdirectory up one level into the resources directory.
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