# electron-printer
node-printer fork to be used with electron. It's a fork from node-printer which binary are released on github.
It's a temporary solution until binary package will be available for node 5.1.x and
windows / linux platforms for node-printer on electron runtime. Please refer to https://github.com/tojocky/node-printer on
how to use these APIs.

# Prerequisite
Install the node version used by electron (currently is 5.1.1 for electron 0.36.7).
A github valid `NODE_PRE_GYP_GITHUB_TOKEN` must be set as env variable.

# Release & Build
Remember to change the binary host with the correct version (see https://github.com/bchr02/node-pre-gyp-github).
After the release, build the binaries for each OS.

# Linux build
On Ubuntu 15.10, install:
```
sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev g++-multilib libudev-dev:i386 libcups2-dev
```
And then run `npm run release-linux` (x64) or `npm run release-linux-ia32` (ia32) to publish
the binary build

# Windows build
Use a  Windows 7 on x64. Install Visual Studio (2013 is OK on Windows 7) and Python 2.7.x
Always specify the VisualStudio version using `--msvs_version=xxxx`, foor instance
`npm i --msvs_version=2013`

Release using  `npm run release-win --msvs_version=2013` (x64) or `npm run release-win-ia32 --msvs_version=2013` (ia32)

# OSx build
After `npm i`, just use `npm run release-darwin` (`npm run release` should work)