It is not possible to install it on windows

[bykka]

Windows does not have a python, so npm install finished with the exception

[schroffl]

Python is required by node-gyp, which is a package we depend on. I'm not happy about this constraint either, but – to be frank – I don't have the time to work around that right now.

If you are familiar with this topic, please feel free to submit a pull request and I will take a look at it :)

[bykka]

Why not include pre-compiled versions of lzo library to the package?

[schroffl]

I guess this is a possibility, but then you would also need to either pre-compile it for all platforms or have a fallback that will try to compile it locally when there's no pre-compiled version available. However, in the latter case, one needs to have python installed again.

You also need to include all those builds in the package tar-ball, which would considerably increase the size. Of course, you can host those builds on a server and just download them as needed, but such infrastructure requires some maintenance.

[schroffl]

I just wanted to add that you should absolutely share your ideas and thoughts! My last post sounded kind of cynical and like I just wanted to shut this issue down, but that's not the case :)

[bykka]

I'm not very familiar with npm. I just thought that "npm install" simply downloads dependencies without any additional actions.
At the current moment, I used "docker" to do that.