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  • Nik 1614 posts 7260 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 06, 2015 @ 10:50
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    Building the Core

    Hi Guys,

    So this might be a fairly noobish question but I'm interested in exploring the Umbraco Core with a look to possibly contributing moving forward.

    So, my first task was to build the core.

    I took a clone of the Github repository here: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/

    And follows the instructions here: http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/tutorials/Building

    I'm running Visual Studio 2013 Update 4.

    However, when I run the

    grunt dev

    command it all goes fine until it runs this:

    Running "bower-install-simple:dev" (bower-install-simple) task Executing Bower (Command: install) bower ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the PATH Warning: Task "bower-install-simple:dev" failed. Use --force to continue.

    Aborted due to warnings.

    I've not tried running it with --force as my knowledge of GRUNT/BOWER/Node is nil. I've always just used Nuget for package management.

    When I try to run the solution I get no build errors but I'm presented with an error page in my web browser:

    A server error occured

    This is most likely fur to an error during application startup

    Some image that fails to display shows here

    Did you know

    {{installer.feeback}}

    No errors exist in the umbraco log so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to start resolving this as I suspect the latter error is caused by the former failed command.

    Any help would be appreciated.

  • David Brendel 792 posts 2970 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Oct 06, 2015 @ 13:24
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    Hi Nik,

    i think you can just clone the solution from github and build/run it from visual Studio.

    The belle building part is not necessary. It was just there before v7 to have a look at the new ui.

    Regards David

  • Nik 1614 posts 7260 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 06, 2015 @ 14:00
    Nik
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    Hi David,

    To be honest, I actually tried that first before I found the link about how to build and run the source. Once it eventually built (the first time resulted in loads of CNC errors so I had to build each project individually) I got the same errors.

    Next on my list is to try starting again with a clean clone and see what happens.

  • David Brendel 792 posts 2970 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Oct 06, 2015 @ 14:04
    David Brendel
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    Maybe check which branch you used. I think the dev-v7 is up-to-date.

    Haven't cloned it for a while so don't know if there are some errors in the branch.

  • Nik 1614 posts 7260 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 06, 2015 @ 15:56
    Nik
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    Hi David,

    I started fresh with a clean clone of the dev-v7 branch. Once it cloned I built the solution. The first build failed due to nuget package restoration, but telling it to build a second time resulted in a successful build.

    However, I still get the same issue when I run the site.

    This is the web address that it tries to re-direct to:

    http://localhost:7300/install/?redir=true&url=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a7300%2fumbraco

  • Nik 1614 posts 7260 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 07, 2015 @ 15:18
    Nik
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    So, some more information for you regrading this issue:

    If I clone the repo via Visual Studio 2015 on a windows 10 machine it's worked no problem.

    Yet I still cannot get it to work on Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2013.

    Is there a pre-requisite that isn't documented anywhere?

    There was a noticeable behavioural difference with Visual Studio 2015 I opened the solution file after the clone it went off on it's own and ran all the bower, grunt and NPM commands. Then when I built it, it already had all the nuget packages (or at least it seemed to). The build then completed with no problems and the site launched as I expected.

    Could the latest project be dependant on VS2015 to build successfully?

  • David Brendel 792 posts 2970 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Oct 07, 2015 @ 15:24
    David Brendel
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    I haven't heard about a VS2015 dependency.

    But Umbraco 7.3 used MVC 5 and some Identity features. So maybe thats why it dies work out if the box with the new VS.

    Thats the only thing i can imagine right now.

  • Nik 1614 posts 7260 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 07, 2015 @ 15:38
    Nik
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    I'm going to try a different VS2013 machine tonight/tomorrow and see how that behaves. I'll let you know how I get on.

  • Nik 1614 posts 7260 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Oct 08, 2015 @ 11:20
    Nik
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    For those who happen to have the same issue it seems to be caused by various dependencies being required.

    So, as I mentioned in my first post I had followed the instructions for running the source on the link http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/tutorials/Building

    However, for me this was just the start of the problem. Even though I installed NodeJs and Grunt, you also Bower installed.

    How many package managers do we need?!

    So, once that was installed I tried again.. still, same problem. Okay, so basically Visual Studio 2013 doesn't have built in support for all of these things.

    Next, I found this blog post by the very helpful Scott Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingGulpGruntBowerAndNpmSupportForVisualStudio.aspx

    I then proceeded to install all 3 of the packages.

    Still I had some issues and had to re-register some Path variables.

    Finally, things started to look promising.

    Using Task Launcher (one of the plugins) I see all of the tasks in the source code and after telling it to run the Build-Dev task everything is now working!

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