Using nexe@beta on Manjaro Linux errors on checking compiled node binary

[reinaldorauch]

This is a

• Bug Report
• Feature Request
• Other

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a folder, initialize it with npm init and use default settings.
• Create a index.js file with this content:

  console.log("Hello World");
  

• Install nexe@beta in project with npm i -D nexe@beta
• Run npx nexe -i index.js -o index
• Output would be:

✔ Using input file as the main module: index.js
✔ Node source extracted to: /home/reinaldoacr/projetos/nexe-test/.nexe/8.1.4
✔ Node binary compiled
⠋ Writing result to fileevents.js:182
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/reinaldoacr/projetos/nexe-test/.nexe/8.1.4/out/Release/node'

Please also provide:

• Platform(OS/Version):

lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	n/a
Distributor ID:	ManjaroLinux
Description:	Manjaro Linux
Release:	17.0.2
Codename:	Gellivara

uname -a
Linux reinaldo-note-manjaro 4.9.38-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 15 12:04:06 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Host Node Version: v8.1.4
• Target Node Version: v8.1.4
• Nexe version: 2.0.0-beta.2
• Python Version: python 3.6.1, python2 2.7.13

[Tchoumi]

i think perhaps you should add the version of nexe you are using .some thing like that : nexe -i indexe.js -o logging.exe --version 8.0.0.

[calebboyd]

Did you try setting -p? Since python is occupied by python 3?

[calebboyd]

I might see if that can be detected...

[reinaldorauch]

Yeah, used that and it didn't worked at all. It made the check if I was using python 3 instead python 2 and I had to switch to python2 to be able to get this. Sorry for the late reply.

[calebboyd]

I think this is just a classic node build problem. GYP doesn't always use $PYTHON...
You can probably fix it temporarily by doing the following in the session you're running nexe in.

mkdir -p ~/bin/
ln -s $(which python2) ~/bin/python
export PATH=~/bin/:$PATH

[reinaldorauch]

Oh, I see, will try with that. Thanks :D

[calebboyd]

I don't think its appropriate for nexe to create a symlink anywhere. So, Instead I'll just make a note of this in the readme