npm install can't find node-pre-gyp.

[DLLarson]

node-pre-gyp was installed properly but there was no path to the actual script.

When building in a cross-tool environment the install choked.

-Dale

[springmeyer]

Npm should put node-pre-gyp on the PATH automatically. Tell me more about what your cross-tool environment is? Perhaps your NPM installation is broken?

[DLLarson]

The build was performed using the Yocto project tools (Fido 1.8.1).

The issue happens when doing npm install with modules that require native builds. Normally this all works just fine. We build many packages that include native components. This package busted the builds.

When I investigated I found it was trying to run node-pre-gyp but didn't know how to find it.

This was my solution. Yet I noticed in the CI tests it doesn't work on Windows targets.

We've redirected our product build package.json to my personal fork of this repo for the near term to get operational again.

-Dale

[springmeyer]

We build many packages that include native components. This package busted the builds.

Npm should be putting node-pre-gyp on PATH just like it does for node-gyp. Perhaps finding node-gyp was busted for you as well and you were working around it since you had a global node-gyp install? A global node-pre-gyp install would also perhaps work around the problem.

[DLLarson]

Thanks for the feedback!

I think I need to do some digging yet.

The Yocto build system provides completely wrapped environments for each task of a build (fetch, patch, configure, compile, install, package...)

It generally provides its own native tools so as not to rely on the host system's support. So as part of the process a native node/npm installation is created and it is used to produce the cross architecture packages. I did actually install node-pre-gyp into the native version but the build still didn't find it in the path. node-sqlite3 is the only package with native components that breaks for us due to node-pre-gyp. It could be that none of the other packages use the pre-gyp stuff.

-Dale

[thearchivalone]

@DLLarson, I've noticed that this PR is exactly 4 years old to the date and the original repository is no longer available. Any way you could please close it if you are still active on Github? Thanks

[daniellockyer]

Closing as it should be longer be relevant 🙂