lstat doesn't exist on windows

[awatson1978]

Re: robfallows

TL;DR: I got StarryNight installed, but couldn't get it to run. YMMV.

So, I finally have something to report wrt Windows. I stripped Windows back to a bare installation to find out what a Windows developer might need to install prior to installing StarryNight.

Prerequisites:

1. nodejs and npm. Don't do what I did and install the latest version of node. Things will break. I eventually installed our old friend version 0.10.36. I used the msi file from http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.36/, which also installs npm 1.4.28.
2. python. I installed version 2.7 from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2710/. Version 3.4.3 might work - I didn't try.
3. You need a C compiler. I installed Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 from https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs. Other C compilers might work, I don't know. The errors I saw prior to installing this referenced Visual Studio, so I took the route of least pain (but probably longest ever installation time). You should check the licence if you are using it commercially.
4. Check your PATH settings. node and npm seemed to set this up for me. So did Visual Studio, after a reboot, but python didn't. If you don't know where to check/set, click the Windows button, right click on Computer, select properties -> advanced system settings -> Environment Variables (Win7).
   From here, you can now open up a command prompt and install starrynight:

npm install -g starrynight

During this I got a handful of warnings:

warning C4506: no definition for inline function 'v8::Persistent<v8::Object> v8::Persistent<v8::Object>::New(v8::Handle<v8::Object>)' [C:\users\***\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\starrynight\node_modules\pioneer\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\node_modules\ws\node_modules\bufferutil\build\bufferutil.vcxproj]

warning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not enabled. Specify /EHsc [C:\users\***\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\starrynight\node_modules\mrtbulkrelease\node_modules\sync-prompt\build\sync_prompt.vcxproj]

However, the installation completed ok smile, although on my core i5 laptop it took 3 hours worried!

Unfortunately, when I tried to add the nightwatch scaffolding:

starrynight scaffold --framework nightwatch

I got the following error:

Starting scaffolding of nightwatch tests...

{ [Error: ENOENT, lstat 'C:\Users\rfallows\AppData\Roaming\npm\lib\node_modules\starrynight\scaffolds\sample-tests\nightwatch']
  errno: 34,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\rfallows\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\lib\\node_modules\\starrynight\\scaffolds\\sample-tests\\nightwatch' }

The issue seems to be with no lstat command in Windows. I have checked cygwin, GnuWin and MinGW and cannot find a Windows equivalent. Currently stuck!