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I'm trying to compile a sample script using the lib/tsc.js file in the 2.4.2 release of TypeScript.

At the Windows console I'm typing:

cscript lib\tsc.js test.ts

It gives the following error:

lib\tsc.js(216, 31) Microsoft JScript compilation error: Expected identifier

I had tried with the newest version of TypeScript on GitHub but it gave a similar error.

The sample script is:

function greeter(person: string) {
    return "Hello, " + person;
}

WScript.Echo(greeter("World"));

I'm pretty sure this used to work for an earlier version of TypeScript. Am I missing something?

Please assume I can't install Node or anything else.

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    WSH's JScript has been frozen since Windows XP was released, so I t does not support ECMAScript 5 features that TypeScript now depends on. You will have to restrict yourself to an older version of the JScript-based TSC that supports ES3. Commented Jul 29, 2017 at 11:48
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    @Dai Ah - thank you! For future readers - it looks like it needs to be the last version of the 1.* series, 1.8.10. Commented Jul 29, 2017 at 12:48
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