Build Atom fails Windows 8.1

#1

I am trying to build Atom on my machine and it constantly fails on the install apm task.

Output from running script/build:

C:\atom [master]> script/build
Node: v0.10.29
npm: v1.4.26
Python: v2.7.8
Installing build modules…
Installing apm…
npm WARN git config --get remote.origin.url returned wrong result (git://github.com/nathansobo/node-plist.git)
npm ERR! git clone git://github.com/nathansobo/node-plist.git Cloning into bare repository ‘C:\Users\fiske_000.atom.np
m_git-remotes\git-github-com-nathansobo-node-plist-git-28e79487’…
npm ERR! git clone git://github.com/nathansobo/node-plist.git fatal: read error: Invalid argument
npm ERR! Error: Command failed: Cloning into bare repository ‘C:\Users\fiske_000.atom.npm_git-remotes\git-github-com-
nathansobo-node-plist-git-28e79487’…
npm ERR! fatal: read error: Invalid argument
npm ERR!
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:647:15)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
npm ERR! at maybeClose (child_process.js:755:16)
npm ERR! at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:822:5)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/npm/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command “node” “C:\atom\build\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “–userconfig=C:\atom\.npmrc” “install”
"–quiet"
npm ERR! cwd C:\atom\apm
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.26
npm ERR! code 128

Awesome editor by the way!

#2

Turns out it was because of the git protocol instead of http. Had to change my config to use http instead of git.

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

After that I got past my error above but ran into another one.

#3

Thanks for adding your fix.

And what’s that?

#4

From what I can tell it is still related to the git protocol and apm not respecting global config change.

See apm issue #106

I went to the cache.js file mentioned in the bug and changed it to use “https:” but during the build it overwrote my changes so it fails with another call to git clone git://...