# Troubleshoot: Particle-CLI on windows \[Q&A\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials\ **Created:** [June 26, 2014, 8:37am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352 "2014-06-26T08:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kennethlimcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@kennethlimcp](https://community.particle.io/u/kennethlimcp)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/21 "2014-02-28T01:13:58Z")
Lolololololololol. That’s always a good fix! ---
**Author:** ![skyvoyager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@skyvoyager](https://community.particle.io/u/skyvoyager)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/22 "2014-02-28T01:14:58Z")
Yeah…that didn’t work, either. My happy and sad is trending to more sad now. Perhaps I should quit while I’m ahead! (or switch to my Mac!) ---
**Author:** ![kennethlimcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@kennethlimcp](https://community.particle.io/u/kennethlimcp)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/23 "2014-02-28T01:24:11Z")
Ohh you mean the error on serial? It’s an issue on windows now so just wait for a fix 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![skyvoyager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@skyvoyager](https://community.particle.io/u/skyvoyager)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/24 "2014-02-28T01:52:25Z")
Gotcha! I shall spend my time working to make my Spark sentient so that it will do my bidding. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BDub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/bdub/32/5137_2.png) [@BDub](https://community.particle.io/u/BDub)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/25 "2014-02-28T04:03:12Z")
You might benefit from this topic if you are on Windows: [https://community.spark.io/t/installing-the-usb-driver-on-windows-serial-debugging/882](https://community.spark.io/t/installing-the-usb-driver-on-windows-serial-debugging/882) ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/26 "2014-03-01T00:26:07Z")
Ok, so spark-cli is working on my Win8.1 pc. I want to compile an entire directory containing all the necessary .cpp and .h files. When I try and do a cloud compile of the directory it quickly spews out an error indicating there is no such file for a file that is clearly there. Am I missing something on how the CLI works? Do the files need to be separated into inc and src folders? Do I have to have a build.mk file in there? ---
**Author:** ![mikepa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mikepa](https://community.particle.io/u/mikepa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/27 "2014-03-01T15:21:05Z")
Can i check if anyone has tried to install Spark-cli on OSX (10.9)? straight after spark cloud login am getting: ``` Got an access token! 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 logged in! { '0': '1234567890123456789012345678901234567890' } There was an error writing [object Object]: { [Error: EACCES, permission denied '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/spark-cli/spark.config.json'] errno: 3, code: 'EACCES', path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/spark-cli/spark.config.json', syscall: 'open' } ``` something (spark-cli?) doesn’t have access permission to the folder specified - anyone else seen or thoughts on how to resolve? ---
**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/dave/32/181_2.png) [@Dave](https://community.particle.io/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/28 "2014-03-01T18:42:23Z")
Hi @mikepa, There is an issue for this bug here: [https://github.com/spark/spark-cli/issues/10](https://github.com/spark/spark-cli/issues/10) The cli should be storing it’s config in the user’s home directory, and not with the application. I’ll be doing a CLI day on Sunday, so a fix should come then hopefully. 😄 Thanks, David ---
**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/dave/32/181_2.png) [@Dave](https://community.particle.io/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/29 "2014-03-01T18:43:34Z")
Hi @peekay123, Thank you for trying the CLI - Can you send me the error output? Thanks, David ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/30 "2014-03-01T19:03:32Z")
Dave, I will PM you on this. ---
**Author:** ![mikepa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mikepa](https://community.particle.io/u/mikepa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/31 "2014-03-02T02:37:50Z")
thanks for the pointer @Dave - hadn’t thought to check Github for this type of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/dave/32/181_2.png) [@Dave](https://community.particle.io/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/32 "2014-05-06T14:21:40Z")
I wanted to jump in and say the requirements for installing the node-serialport module have lessened significantly. You should no longer need the node-gyp / Python / Visual Studio C++ express stuff. Thanks! David ---
**Author:** ![Jerware](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/jerware/32/1516_2.png) [@Jerware](https://community.particle.io/u/Jerware)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/33 "2014-06-20T06:13:52Z")
What was the solution to this? I’m getting the same error. ---
**Author:** ![kennethlimcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@kennethlimcp](https://community.particle.io/u/kennethlimcp)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 9:17am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/34 "2014-06-20T09:17:17Z")
What’s the issue you are facing? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jerware](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/jerware/32/1516_2.png) [@Jerware](https://community.particle.io/u/Jerware)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/35 "2014-06-21T00:45:35Z")
Hi Kennith. If you click the little image of peekay123 in my post you can see the quoted message that I’m replying to. (I’m not used to this forum software either, but I like it!) I got a PM from Dave pointing out that local libraries have to be in quotes (not brackets) when importing them for compile using Spark-CLI. ``` I.e. #import "library.h", not #import . ``` One question I still have is what about application.h? Is that available for import globally server side when I do a cloud compile, or do I need to copy all the Spark library files to my project folder too? ---
**Author:** ![kennethlimcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@kennethlimcp](https://community.particle.io/u/kennethlimcp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/36 "2014-06-21T00:56:33Z")
For `#include "application.h"`, it is available for the server side and you do not have to include it. You only need the library files you are using 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BDub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/bdub/32/5137_2.png) [@BDub](https://community.particle.io/u/BDub)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/37 "2014-06-21T04:02:35Z")
Just going through updating my CLI install… there are new versions for all of the programs you’ve linked to up there 😉 Also a link to the MS V++ 2008 Redistributable would be good. ---
**Author:** ![kennethlimcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@kennethlimcp](https://community.particle.io/u/kennethlimcp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/38 "2014-06-21T04:04:04Z")
For node.js? Why do we need the V++ since its no longer a prerequisite? 🙂 I’ll update the links later but would be more awesome if there’s a “latest” version link. Thanks @BDub! Going to setup in my windows running on Parallels later 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BDub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/bdub/32/5137_2.png) [@BDub](https://community.particle.io/u/BDub)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/39 "2014-06-21T04:05:44Z")
The OpenSSL installation complains about it if you don’t have it on your computer… ---
**Author:** ![kennethlimcp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@kennethlimcp](https://community.particle.io/u/kennethlimcp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/troubleshoot-particle-cli-on-windows-q-a/5352/40 "2014-06-21T04:06:23Z")
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