I'm trying to follow the contributing instructions for Video.js, and when I attempt to build the project grunt hangs on the minify step. Here's the output:
Running "minify" task
Running "minify:source" (minify) task
Verifying property minify.source exists in config...OK
Files: build/files/combined.video.js, build/compiler/goog.base.js, src/js/exports.js -> build/files/minified.video.js
Writing build/files/minified.video.js...OK
I get no error or message; it just hangs there for minutes. A file called minified.video.js is created in build/files, but it's empty. Any ideas on where I'm going wrong?
Update: I've tried it on 2 3 computers now with the exact same results. Two of the computers are Windows 7 x64 and one is Windows 8 x64. My gut feeling is that closure is choking on the really long command that the build file sends to it, but I'm having a hard time debugging that.
Update 2: I modified the Gruntfile.js to make it output the full command it uses to call Closure, and then I tried running that directly. I got the following result: 0 error(s), 576 warning(s), 82.5% typed. I would think that many warnings points to an issue, but I don't know what it could be. The full output from closure can be found here: http://pastebin.com/GZuFxiqh.
Update 3: I setup a virtual machine running Ubuntu and the build worked flawlessly. So, this is somehow Windows related, but I can't see how.
Well, I never figured out why the build was failing for me. However, as of video.js version 4.4.2, I am able to build the project without problems. Maybe it was a configuration problem on my end, or maybe some bugs got fixed on their end, but this issue is now resolved.