fatal error: zmq.h: No such file or directory (ubuntu 12.04, node 0.10.26)

[jcollum-hcg]

Installed ZMQ via the instructions here: http://zeromq.org/intro:get-the-software

Then installed ZMQ via npm install zmq. Results:

> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory `/home/xyz/app-build-0.60/node_modules/zmq/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o
../binding.cc:28:17: fatal error: zmq.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/home/xyz/app-build-0.60/node_modules/zmq/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/home/hcg/.nvm/v0.10.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
gyp ERR! command "node" "/home/hcg/.nvm/v0.10.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/xyz/app-build-0.60/node_modules/zmq
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.26
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2

Can I test whether zmq is working? There is no make test target for it.

[jcollum-hcg]

Looks like sudo make install is required to use ZMQ with node. The docs for ZMQ imply that that is optional.

Zeromq.node should be doing some sort of check to see if ZMQ is available system-wide and give a better error message (while installing).

[andronat]

I had the same problem with Centos 6.5.

I installed the yum install zeromq-devel and worked.

[shakdwipeea]

For ubuntu this worked.