Building contextify under Windows 7 x64 (for NodeJS jQuery)

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I try to get node-jquery working. contextify is one of the dependencies (required for jsdom). contextify needs to be built somehow using Python. But this does not seem to work on Windows 7 x64. At least one my computer :) After some readings (#10, #12, #17) and trying some binaries provided by this fork and this one I can get it work ... I've got the same error from `node-gyp configure` or from `node-gyp rebuild` (`npm install jquery`) : ``` info it worked if it ends with ok info downloading: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.14/node-v0.6.14.tar.gz info downloading: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.14/x64/node.lib info downloading: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.14/node.lib spawn python [ 'D:\Users\ngryman\.node-gyp\0.6.14\tools\gyp_addon', 'binding.gyp', '-ID:\Users\ngryman\build\config.gypi', '-f', 'msvs', '-G', 'msvs_version=2010' ] File "D:\Users
gryman\.node-gyp\0.6.14	ools\gyp_addon", line 40 print 'Error running GYP' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax ERR! Error: `gyp_addon` failed wi…

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I managed to build it, but I can say it was really painful. In fact it was so painful that it caused temporary amnesia and I forgot how I did it.

You need Visual Studio as well, apart from python.

Anyway, I have the binaries, I just uploaded them to gihub: https://github.com/mihaifm/jsdom_binaries

Just clone that repo, copy what's inside `node_modules` to your project, and you're good to go!

Update (march 2013)

These binaries are no longer needed (at least not for Win7, with VS2010 installed). `jsdom` and `contextify` can now be installed just with `npm`:

```
npm install jsdom
npm install contextify
```

(you still need python and a MS C++ compiler, as mentioned in the requirements for node-gyp)

I updated the repo as well, just in case anyone still has trouble installing.

Building contextify under Windows 7 x64 (for NodeJS jQuery)

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