npm & node-gyp error

[random acorn]

I’m having trouble while running npm install on this project . I’ve tried everything

[latent path]

Are you trying to do this inside your one drive?
Perhaps that's the issue.

[quick isle]

I had this happen to me about a week ago with a similar error from node-gyp rebuild. I tried several different things to get it to work:

Installed some .net tools from a stackoverflow answer.

Uninstalled and reinstalled node-gyp globally.

Installed some windows-build-tools plugin.

Used nvm to switch to lower versions of node.

And countless other things. I spent a good 2-3 hours trying to figure out the root of the cause. Nothing worked that I could find.

The reason the command was even running was from a package xml2json that I was trying to install. I had to isolate packages to see which one was causing it, because it was creating the error from a cloned repo when trying to initially install packages and narrowed it down to that. Ended up installing a different package that did the same thing and moved on.

I don't know if you are trying to install a package when this issue arises, but if you are, I would try to look for a package that does a similar thing.

[quick isle]

You may be able to use this repo https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#npm-configuration-for-npm-versions-before-v9 for node-gyp and go through their README to see if anything from that might work for you as well.

[latent path]

thank you for this detailed insight! 🙂

[quick isle]

My pleasure! That error could be a number of things, something may work for it, but nothing worked for my specific situation 🤷‍♂️ I chose the easy way out this time 😅

[latent path]

I personally would never work in a folder that syncs to the cloud 😅
That's why we have version control.

[quick isle]

Yeah, that's a good point... kind of one of the reasons I installed wsl and have been working out of that ubuntu terminal. Though I can't be too sure something isn't synced still. It did come from the windows store after all 😆

Plus it's nice to have the man command. The git bash only does so much

[latent path]

wsl is great, it was a good idea to finally add it to windows. Although I am not using it at all, I have my work laptop from the company I am working for which is a mac 😅

my friend is using his PC (windows) with wsl and it's a pleasure to use

[random acorn]

Hmm…Desktop and Downloads are in OneDrive. The folder is on the desktop, I sometimes run stuffs from there.

[random acorn]

Thanks a lot. This worked, I should have tried this sooner. It was better-sqlite3 package 🙂. I removed it from the dependencies, installed the other dependencies and installed better-sqlite3 alone.

[random acorn]

I don’t think it syncs to the cloud. You have to login or sign up and set something’s for that to happen but I’ll check again.

[latent path]

Yes, you need to login and setup auto sync but I think it is on by default. I just don’t think it’s a good idea to sync all of your node_modules 😂

I thought because it is a one drive folder, Microsoft might have setup special reading and writing access to it that is only available to the user and not for 3rd party services.

I am glad you managed to make it work! 🙂 nicely done

[random acorn]

You're right, I wasn't really paying attention to it. I've moved everything from OneDrive now. It was there by default. I wouldn't want to sync everything on my Desktop and Downloads, I don't even have data for that. Thanks for letting me know 😅, You guys are amazing.

[quick isle]

To be honest, I haven't been on a Mac computer since about '98 😅 so I genuinely wouldn't know what it was like in comparison! I do like the wsl though... I'm running out of memory on my pc unfortunately. In hindsight, I should have gotten one with way more memory 🤷‍♂️.

[quick isle]

Glad you got it working! I tried to install mine alone too, it just didn't work in my case.

[latent path]

I've never had a mac before working 6-8 month at my current company hehe
We were working on Dell PC's with Ubuntu on it which is absolutely fine I really loved Ubuntu, everything was very easy going most of the time and it was fast.
Once we had to work from home we wanted to go for a longer holiday with my wife, 3 weeks in total which is waaaay to much for me, 2 weeks is the max I can handle without going mental 😂 so I asked my employer if I could borrow a laptop from the office. The response was unexpected: We don't have any laptops available but we will get you one. The same day my manager gave me a call on Zoom, shared his screen and showed me a mac book if that would be good. I was like: wth? yes, of course wow thank you! 😂
I did not expect a mac at all but it made sense as I had to deal with mobile application development as well and you cannot develop anything for iOS unless you have a mac 😅 which is very annoying...

[quick isle]

Yeah, I can go about a week and a half maybe 2 before I start getting stir crazy 🤪 and feeling a need to be productive! 3 weeks is awesome to have lol but spread out a little though 😅

I actually started playing with flutter and dart a little bit for mobile app development. It's pretty neat. And they are starting to offer a backend for dart as well. While still a little ways out, it'd pretty neat to think about. But that was one snag I ran into was not being able to see what it looked like for ios. Only android would work because of windows. Also part of the reason I would consider getting a Mac for my next purchase (when I can afford it of course). I've just been so used to windows that it may be a small learning curve for me to use!

[latent path]

if you are using wsl you should be good to use mac.
The only annoying bit is when something is not supported on arm64 😅 Sometimes you need to run brew in a different mode just to install something because the installation doesn't pick up the correct cpu version correctly 😅

[quick isle]

I was speaking of getting used to some of the differences in keyboards and os (from a ui perspective). I'm not sure how different they in that regard. I've actually not had to use brew at all. But that's an interesting error though. I wonder if it has to do with brew or the specific package being installed 🤔