Description of the issue:
I wanted to build brave browser on my computer. I followed all instructions and requirements. “npm Install” looks fine. After the “npm run init” command, i’m getting errors.
$ npm run init
[email protected] init C:\brave-browser\brave-browser
node ./scripts/init.js
Performing initial checkout of brave-core
Cloning brave-core [master] into C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave…
/-------------------------------
C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave
git clone https://github.com/brave/brave-core.git .
/-------------------------------
C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave
git checkout master
/-------------------------------
C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave
npm.cmd install
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave\node_modules.staging\core-js-eb820c3e\es\string\anchor.js’
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave\node_modules.staging\core-js-c093ddaa\es\regexp\constructor.js’
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave\node_modules.staging\core-js-cdb882f7\es\string\anchor.js’
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave\node_modules.staging\core-js-eb820c3e\es\string\big.js’
…
– long similar WARN tar ENOENT error here –
…
npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\brave-browser\brave-browser\src\brave\node_modules.staging\core-js-2a95d827\stable\typed-array\values.js’
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-08-07T06_11_03_015Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] init: node ./scripts/init.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] init script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-08-07T06_11_06_303Z-debug.log
How can this issue be reproduced?
- I followed and installed all required tools that needs to be installed and configured
- git clone https://github.com/brave/brave-browser.git
- inside the project folder : npm install
- npm run init
then error above occures
Expected result:
creat a build that i can run
Brave Version( check About Brave):
I’m not using brave instead i’m trying to build the sources of brave
Additional Information:
computer
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8275CL CPU @ 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
16GB RAM
I double checked all requirements in Visual Studio Installer Requirements
Python 2.8
Python 3
Nodejs
depot_tools
all installed and in the environement variables
I also tried deleting package-lock.json if it will work but no luck.