Build native modules with nw gyp

nw-gyp is supported from version 0.3.2

nw-gyp is a hack on node-gyp to support node-webkit specific headers and libraries.

The usage is the same with node-gyp, except that you need to specify the version of node-webkit manually.

$ npm install nw-gyp
$ nw-gyp configure --target=0.3.3
$ nw-gyp build

Please see https://github.com/rogerwang/nw-gyp for more details.

Known issues and limitations

NOTE: native module is supposed to be rebuilt with newer version of node-webkit, because V8 doesn't have any stable ABI.

On Windows, the executable file nw.exe cannot be renamed, or the native module cannot be loaded since it will try to find nw.exe. See https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/199

On OS X, Webkit is only 32-bit (i386) but newer versions of Node are build as 64-bit (x86_64) so you might need ensure libraries your module links to are universal builds.