Errors installing Emscripten during setup steps on a Windows machine

[andyhe958]

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to run SDEverywhere from command prompt on a Windows machine but came across an error below when installing Emscripten. It suggests Python is not found, but in fact I do have Python 3.11 installed.

Then I went on to disable the app alias for Python as suggested, but I got a second error, which seems to contradict with the first error:

I have since managed to install Emscripten separately, not as part of the SDEverywhere setup steps, and it was installed successfully. I think I would post this here to help others potentially in a similar situation, and to help with further configuration of this tool for Windows.

[chrispcampbell]

Hi @andyhe958, thanks for reporting this. I recall when I wrote this step that it was a little sensitive to which method Python was installed on Windows (there are a couple options, and maybe the one I had used worked while others do not). It also depends on whether the python3 alias is on the Windows PATH at the time (I think some installs only come with python). Anyway, I'll open an issue for this so that we can get it fixed.

Please feel free to post any other questions/comments here on the discussion board as you get up and running with SDEverywhere, feedback is always welcome and helpful!

[chrispcampbell]

For the record, this is being tracked in issue #359. There are some additional details in that issue, and I hope to fix the install script on Windows so that it avoids this issue with Python. I will post updates in that issue.