Every Static Blog Engine 1 - Gatsby

Preparation

I installed NodeJS 14 LTS with package managers.On Windows I installed scoop. On Mac I installed brew.

Install `gatsby-cli`

Installing gatsby-cli appears to be smooth on both platforms. I saw no error on both Windows and Mac.

npm install -g gatsby-cli

npm install is quite slow in China. There are Chinese NPM mirrors. If you don’t want to use the mirrors, you can use VPN to speed things up.

Initiate the blog

This is where the issues begin.

gatsby new weiwei-gatsby.github.io https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog

Windows

I got error like this:

> mozjpeg@7.0.0 postinstall D:\code\weiwei-gatsby.github.io\node_modules\mozjpeg
> node lib/install.js

  ‼ getaddrinfo ENOENT raw.githubusercontent.com
  ‼ mozjpeg pre-build test failed
  i compiling from source
  × Error: Command failed: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /s /c "autoreconf -fiv"
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Cool. I don’t even know where to look at. But I guess it’s because I don’t have autoconf. I have absolutely no idea how to install it. Someone asked the same issue on stackoverflow and nobody gave an answer.

I give up.

Mac

Install failed for the same package, but the error message is different.

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Users/wei/code/weiwei.gb/node_modules/mozjpeg
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node lib/install.js
npm ERR! ⚠ connect ECONNREFUSED 0.0.0.0:443
npm ERR!   ⚠ mozjpeg pre-build test failed
npm ERR!   ℹ compiling from source
npm ERR!   ✖ Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking --with-jpeg8 libpng_LIBS='/usr/local/lib/libpng16.a -lz' --enable-static --prefix="/Users/wei/code/weiwei.gb/node_modules/mozjpeg/vendor" --bindir="/Users/wei/code/weiwei.gb/node_modules/mozjpeg/vendor" --libdir="/Users/wei/code/weiwei.gb/node_modules/mozjpeg/vendor"
npm ERR! configure: error: no nasm (Netwide Assembler) found

At least the message is readable. I ran brew install nasm and it finally passed for me.

Conclusion

The install experience isn’t quite enjoyable. Nothing worked in the first place. I want something that works both on Windows and Mac. I can’t get it work on Windows.