Atom Editor - Install Minimap Package on Windows

Question

I'm trying to install the minimap plugin (mimics the sublime minimap) for Atom Editor in Windows but when I do I get an error saying:

"Packages that depend on modules that contain C/C++ code will fail to install. Run apm install --check... "

On the documentation for the minimap it says to run:

   apm install minimap

When I try to run apm, it says command not found...

Online I've found other posts saying that you can go to the Atom toolbar and "Atom > Install Shell Commands" but on Windows there is no Atom toolbar, thats the Mac version as far as I know. Has anyone else had any success with this on windows?

I assume its something simple and I'm just missing it. I think what I need to do is get the apm command line tools to work to be able to run on my terminal so I can run "atom install minimap".

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Figured it out. Hopefully this helps some other poor lost soul.

In order to be able to install the minimap package you need to have Python 2.78

By default the APM tool should be installed with atom, but if you do not have Python they will silently fail.

Next you need to have Visual Studio 2010 Installed with SP1.

You also need Git defined in your Windows Path Variable.

Once you have all these, Go to Atom Settings Ctrl+Shift+P -> Type Settings, Search Packages for minimap, Hit install and it should install just fine.