Win7: problems with spawned child processes

[raphael]

After extensively searching on Google I think I finally pinned down to problems regarding the commands:

ionic serve

ionic emulate <platform> // or anything else cordova related

which lead to node.js errors on the cmd line on Windows, but work perfectly fine on Unix OSes. Those ionic commands make use of the childprocess routine “watch” of node.js, which fails on Windows if the cmd line arguments are not provided correctly. “Ionic serve” invokes the “gulp sass watch” command, now failing for any new project with SASS support on windows.

I’d love to help out here, but my .js abilities are far too inferior to be more useful than that.

More information:

child_process.spawn ignores PATHEXT on Windows

This issue may relate:

Install problems on win 7

Hi, Thanks for all replies, I will pick this up tomorrow in office. I had some limited success with the following and will try again tomorrow. Limited in that the emulator displays but the app fails. Will test on other computers and post. I’ve also documented my install and will also organize tomorrow John goto hello dir emulator.exe -avd hello wait for cmd prompt cordova emulate android

[raphael]

btw. a temporary workaround is to set “sass” to false in the ionic.project file and to run

gulp sass watch

&

ionic serve

in two different cmd windows at the same time.