Cannot compile on Raspbian on Raspberry Pi B 2 due to REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8 error (with solution)

[dustinbolton]

This may be worth noting in the documentation since it took me a long time to figure out. The latest Raspbian comes with a faulty Node v0.10.29 which is missing a UTF8 patch. This results in your epoll dependency failing to compile. Note gcc is v4.9.2.

The error shown is:

../node_modules/nan/nan.h:328:47: error: 'REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8' is not a member of 'v8::String'
static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;

The only solution I found is to upgrade to a newer version, eg:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

This allows onoff to install as expected. It's unfortunate that the out of box Raspbian has this issue but hopefully others won't have to run into this issue too.

[fivdi]

Hmm, that's unfortunate. Thanks for the information. Debian for the BeagleBone Black had the same issue with Node.js v0.10.29. It means that practically no native add-ons can be installed. I'll add a notice to the README.

[fivdi]

This issue has been documented here in the wiki and wiki page has been linked to in the readme.

@dustinbolton thanks again for the information.