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Matt Fiddaman 4e243420fa change minimum version of Node.js to version 20 (#692 )

I think I got all instances where we specify a version, there seem to
only be two places in the docs.

We'll also call it out in the release notes.

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/pull/4978

2025-05-12 19:17:10 +02:00

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Building on Windows

Many of the build scripts are bash scripts and not natively invocable in Windows. To solve this, you can build the project using Git Bash.

Install Git & Git Bash for Windows.
Ensure you have activated Developer Mode.
Install Node v20.x or greater.
Clone this repo.
Using Git Bash (run as administrator), change to the root of this repo.
From inside the bash shell, run yarn install.
From still inside the shell, run yarn start:browser.
Open your browser to http://localhost:3001.

How to Build the Electron App on Windows

Follow steps 1 - 6 above.
Run yarn start. If you get an error about bundle.desktop.js, just and rerun yarn start.
If you get an error from electron, run yarn rebuild-electron and rerun yarn start.

Errors

`rsync: command not found`

If you run into this error, you will need to install the rsync binary to Git Bash. Follow the directions here.

`ln: failed to create symbolic link '../../desktop-client/public/kcab': Operation not permitted`

Bash needs to be run as administrator.

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