Hint - Hybris 1905 - "Unable to find local grunt"

[Former Member]

If you ever tried building Hybris 1905 with smartedit addon, you may run into a build failure, stating "Unable to find local grunt" on Windows. Unfortunately this does not seem to be mentioned in SAP help pages...

After some digging: Caused by the fact that the macros in buildcallbacks.xml are not able to create symlinks and therefore the node_modules folder is missing on the target extensions.

As I don't like to allow a build to run as Administrator - here's the better solution: Run secpol.msc and open Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Create symbolic links. Add your (build) user. After logout / relogin (Windows, you're great!) build should succeed as expected, even w/out admin privileges.