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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The following is from the Windows instructions at https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager:
Download Windows Installer from http://nodejs.org/#download and follow the install instructions
Once node.js is installed, use the Node package manager to install less:
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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