Building on Windows about epsalt.ca

[epsalt]

It should be possible to build the site on Windows. The build section of the makefile can be converted to a Windows Batch script. Something along these lines:

if exist ".\site\" (
    rmdir /s /q ".\site\"   
)
mkdir ".\site\"
xcopy /s /q ".\static\." ".\site"
sassc ".\scss\site.scss" -s compressed > ".\site\css\styles.min.css"
python ".\bin\generator.py"

[tyeeman]

Ok, I'm running the above in a batch file and all works except the last line and I get this error -

g:\www\epsalt>python ".\bin\generator.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\bin\generator.py", line 12, in <module>
    from dateutil.parser import parse
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dateutil'

I ran the pip installer and got this -

c:\Python37>pip install python-dateutil
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in c:\python37\lib\site-packages (2.8.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in c:\python37\lib\site-packages (from python-dateutil) (1.1
2.0)

So pip says I got it but generator.py says no??

[epsalt]

Could be a pip/python version problem? You may be installing the packages for Python 3 but Python 2 is getting called in the python ".\bin\generator.py" line. Changing python in that line to your full Python 3 executable location might work.

Alternatively you could try using a Python 3 virtualenv and installing dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt. That is what I am doing in my dev environment to build the site.

[tyeeman]

Ok, I added the full path for python 3 and get this error -

41 File(s) copied
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\bin\generator.py", line 256, in <module>
    SiteGenerator(DIRS, SITE, MarkdownReader, JinjaRenderer).publish()
  File ".\bin\generator.py", line 41, in __init__
    self.read = reader().read
  File ".\bin\generator.py", line 215, in __init__
    self.md = Markdown(self.extensions, output_format='html5')
TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

[tyeeman]

To get it working I did this -

pip install "markdown<3.0.0"

[epsalt]

Looks like there may have been a breaking change in the Markdown package since the version of Markdown~=2.6.11 the code in generator.py relies on.

Can check that your package versions agree with the requirements.txt file in the repo?

EDIT: Just saw your response, nevermind!

[tyeeman]

Is there a way to have both markdown versions work? Are you going to have to update your code to make ver. 3 work?

FYI, I just uploaded your test site to surge.sh and everytime I click a link Firefox asks me if I want to open or save the file. I think it's because you have decided to not have html extensions on your links. I will try Netlify now and update this post.

Update - Ok, Netlify is different but just as bad. Every link I click shows me the raw html. I had this problem on another cms/blog recently also. It's all to do with the default mime type for files with no extension. Check it out here - http://objective-goldberg-7b5aaa.netlify.com/ and http://tpepsalt.surge.sh/

Is it easy to add "html" to all links in your code?? Maybe make it optional somewhere?

[epsalt]

• I don't have any immediate plans to update to support the new version of the Markdown package
• Content-Type for extensionless files gets set to 'text/html' in the deploy section of the Makefile. I don't have any experience with Netlify or Surge so I can't help you there.

This is the code for my personal website and I am just dealing with my own use case currently. Feel free to work on your own fork though!

If you are looking for a static site generator with actual support I recommend trying one of the excellent options on https://www.staticgen.com/.

[tyeeman]

Ok, thanks.