Building with nw-gyp for Node-Webkit

[etx]

I'm getting an error when trying to compile with nw-gyp on MacOS 10.9 for Node-Webkit. Not sure if it's a nw-gyp issue, or a config issue in the binding.gyp file. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I'm inexperienced with native modules.

gyp: Undefined variable module_name in binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/nw-gyp/lib/configure.js:352:16)
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 Darwin 13.1.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/nw-gyp" "configure" "--target=0.9.2"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/etx/Desktop/CANBusTriple/node_modules/serialport
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.26
gyp ERR! nw-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok 

[Talamantez]

I'm also experiencing error with this and I'm new to it too, but I saw some threads like this one that suggest that you need python 2.6 for things to work with node-gyp. Good luck, and please keep posting anything you learn. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21155922/error-installing-node-gyp-on-ubuntu

[kraag22]

@Talamantez this issue is about nw-gyp, not about node-gyp

For me worked this solution. (I needed serialport 1.4.0 for node-webkit 0.9.2 and not x64 version, on mac 10.9)

cd node_modules/serialport
node-pre-gyp rebuild --runtime=node-webkit --target=0.9.2 --target_arch=ia32

[xseignard]

Thanks @kraag22, on ubuntu 14.04 I did the following:

sudo npm install node-pre-gyp -g
node-pre-gyp rebuild --runtime=node-webkit --target=0.8.6

I had to use the 0.8.x branch of node-webkit for some obscure reason I don't get, but it fit my needs.

Thanks again!

oh, and hi @etx fun to see you there after seeing you here: xseignard/cordovarduino#2 !

[etx]

node-pre-gyp as mentioned above does in fact work well, Thanks for the help all.

Good to see you as well xseignard!