Workaround long paths on Windows by excluding the offending component.

build_apprtc_closure.py

Index: build_apprtc_closure.py
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--- build_apprtc_closure.py	(revision 293823)
+++ build_apprtc_closure.py	(working copy)
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 the node toolchain we downloaded earlier.
 """
 
+import fileinput
 import os
 import shutil
 import sys
@@ -16,6 +17,17 @@
 import utils
 
 
+# Phantomjs generates very deep paths in the node_modules structure and
+# Windows can't deal with that, so just hack that out.
+def _WorkaroundPhantomJsOnWin(samples_path):
+  if utils.GetPlatform() is 'win':
+    package_json = os.path.join(samples_path, 'package.json')
+
+    for line in fileinput.input(package_json, inplace=True):

[kjellander_chromium, 2015/01/27 21:00:30]

Ha, I didn't know about this module. Very neat for performing filtering like
this!

[phoglund_chromium, 2015/01/28 08:29:02]

It is short, but it's really, really strange that it overrides stdout, but it's
convenient. I found it on stack overflow, didn't know about it either.

+      if not 'phantomjs' in line:
+        print line
+
+
 def main():
   node_path = os.path.abspath('node')
   if not os.path.exists(node_path):
@@ -25,6 +37,7 @@
     return 'Expected webrtc-samples at %s.' % os.path.abspath(samples_path)
 
   os.chdir(samples_path)
+  _WorkaroundPhantomJsOnWin(samples_path)
   
   if utils.GetPlatform() is 'win':
     npm_bin = os.path.join(node_path, 'npm.cmd')