Unreal Engine and Azure Digital Twins integration demo - step 3

Question

Hi, I'm having problems with Step 3 'Simulate Devices'. Have used GIT in Windows CLI to clone 'mock-devices' and 'azure-digital-twins-unreal-integration' to my root folder C:\users\rober. Have copied hvac.ts, index.ts, smartbinary.ts files between as instructed. Changed path to src/client (incidentally, the copied code attaches client to npm), then > npm ci && npm run build. The app doesn't build. Can you assist?

Expected/desired behavior

Run/build app  

OS and Version?

Windows 11 Pro  

Versions

21H2[171743-2022-02-04t23-36-02-363z-debug-copy.log][1]  

Answer 1

@Robert Doe Adding answer here for reference from the Github.

It looks like the root of this issue is to do with a Dependency on the Simulator node-sass which uses the node-gyp package to compile various parts of the Simulator. It is expecting Python2.7 and VS 2017 C++ Tools to be installed and available somewhere on the path (or in the directories eg C:/Python27 or the VS default install dir)

As a workaround for now, the following should suffice:

Install Python2.7 (https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/)
Confirm VS 2017 Visual C++ Build tools is installed (This can be found at: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools&rel=15)
Re-run the command npm ci && npm run build

Let me know if this functions for you! I replicated this on a Virtual Machine and these were the steps required. I'll close off this issue in 2 weeks If I don't hear back.

Future fixes should remove the simulators dependency on node-sass as this has now been deprecated per: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-sass. Will look into Simulators' build and consider if a PR is required to remove this deprecated dependency.

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