Compiling on Windows produces compilation errors for the installed @openzeppelin/contracts-ethereum-package/contracts

[abcoathup]

Hi @MWaser,

Welcome to the community

Sorry to hear you are having issues. What version of node (node —version) are you running? Do you have Windows Build Tools installed?

You may want to look at using Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is what I use on Windows 10 rather than running natively and run into far fewer issues.

The following topic gives the two options for development on Windows:

Solidity Smart Contract development on Windows

There are two main options to setup our environment for Solidity Smart Contract development on Windows. The Microsoft recommendation is to use Windows Subsystem for Linux. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/nodejs/setup-on-windows#use-windows-subsystem-for-linux-for-production Many Node.js packages and frameworks are created with a *nix environment in mind and most Node.js apps are deployed on Linux, so developing on WSL ensures consistency between your development and production envir…