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How to install Zombie JS on Windows 7? (node.js headless browser)

I am having issues, could you point me in the right direction?

EDIT: This module (Contextify) will not install from npm on Windows. See https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify/issues/10 for more info.

This is because npm doesn't support C++ modules on Windows yet: https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify/issues/14#issuecomment-3577972

Generally I would like to run http://zombie.labnotes.org - for Windows they are suggesting:

On Windows you'll need Cygwin to get access to GCC, Python, etc. Read this for detailed instructions and troubleshooting: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-Cygwin-(Windows)

The problem is - they say Cygwin description is outdated and suggest using Visual Studio... Either way I got both and I am taking my chances by using nodejs installer rather that building it from scratch (error doesn't seem related to it). And here are the steps I'm doing:

1) Installed node.js using installer: http://nodejs.org/#download

2) Got NPM package manager: https://github.com/isaacs/npm

3) Got Python 2.7, Visual Studio 2010 (as some sources indicated C++ compiler as necessary) and Cygwin...

4) As the installer fails at contextify I searched for it

Use the pre-built binary just download the ZIP file at https://github.com/Benvie/contextify/zipball/master , extract it into your node_modules folder, and then rename the folder to "contextify"

c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs>node --version
v0.6.13

c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs>npm install zombie
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/zombie
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/zombie
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/jsdom/0.2.10
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/jsdom/0.2.10
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script

> ws@0.4.10 preinstall c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie\node_mo
dules\ws
> make

        1 file(s) copied.
        1 file(s) copied.
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/commander/0.5.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/options
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/options
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/commander/0.5.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/contextify
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/request
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/htmlparser
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cssom
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/contextify
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/htmlparser
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/request
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/cssom

> contextify@0.0.7 preinstall c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie\
node_modules\jsdom\node_modules\contextify
> node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build

node-waf was unexpected at this time.

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, chmod 'c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie
\node_modules\jsdom\node_modules\request\tests\squid.conf'
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!     <npm-@googlegroups.com>
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7600
npm ERR! command "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "c:\\Program File
s (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "zombie"
npm ERR! cwd c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.13
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.9
npm ERR! path c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie\node_modules\jsd
om\node_modules\request\tests\squid.conf
npm ERR! fstream_path c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie\node_mod
ules\jsdom\node_modules\request\tests\squid.conf
npm ERR! fstream_type File
npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter
npm ERR! fstream_finish_call chmod
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! message ENOENT, chmod 'c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombi
e\node_modules\jsdom\node_modules\request\tests\squid.conf'
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_mod
ules\npm\node_modules\fstream\lib\writer.js:285:17)

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, lstat 'c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie
\node_modules\jsdom\node_modules\htmlparser\runtests.html'
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!     <npm-@googlegroups.com>
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7600
npm ERR! command "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "c:\\Program File
s (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "zombie"
npm ERR! cwd c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.13
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.9
npm ERR! path c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie\node_modules\jsd
om\node_modules\htmlparser\runtests.html
npm ERR! fstream_path c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombie\node_mod
ules\jsdom\node_modules\htmlparser\runtests.html
npm ERR! fstream_type File
npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! message ENOENT, lstat 'c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\zombi
e\node_modules\jsdom\node_modules\htmlparser\runtests.html'
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_mod
ules\npm\node_modules\fstream\lib\writer.js:204:26)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\npm-debug.log
npm not ok

c:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs>

What steps do I need to make in order to make it operational?

If building nodejs from sources to install a package is required then please say it loud :)

Thanks for helping!