node-pre-gyp
nar
| node-pre-gyp | nar | |
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| 4 | - | |
| 1,121 | 429 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 8.1 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 7 years ago | |
| JavaScript | LiveScript | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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node-pre-gyp
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The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away
In May 2022, Dane Springmeyer, the primary maintainer of node-pre-gyp, a critical tool in the Node.js ecosystem, announced his decision to step down. This wasn't just another developer moving on; for nearly a decade he had been maintaining the project.
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Has anyone got sqlite3 and electron working on Apple M1?
The problem is that it determines the the system's platform and architecture using the binary compiling package node-pre-gyp and this very savior of a Github issue details how node-pre-gyp is not handling ARM architecture detection properly and basically mixing everything up. Because it's not detecting properly, even if we build our own binding with --build-from-source when installing, it still won't work because it is compiling the wrong binding file for the wrong architecture. To make matters worse, if we don't use --build-from-source, it just simply fetches the Intel precompiled binding file. napi-v6-darwin-unknown-x64
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Getting Rid of Dust / 1.0.0-beta.4
Indeed, Snowboy uses node-pre-gyp which helps to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries. So when a new Node.js version is shipped, node-pre-gyp must update its listing of the supported targets by specifying the:
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Mac Mini M1 issues with Node JS < 15
Node is like 95% OK with ARM chips, so you might have a tricky dependency. Every time I had problems it was related to something depending on node-pre-gyp, there is an issue about it .
nar
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