Goal
Install a node module natively using node-waf.
Specifically, I'm looking at node-inotify
Procedure
For reasons that I don't understand, the packaged build of nodejs in OpenEmbedded doesn't include node's waf tools.
I just copied them over from a system that does have them installed:
Prereqs
GUMSTIX=192.168.1.110
scp -r /usr/local/lib/node/waf* ${GUMSTIX}:/usr/lib/node/
scp ~/overo-oe/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv7a/nodejs-dev_*.ipk ${GUMSTIX}:~/
ssh ${GUMSTIX}
sudo opkg install nodejs-dev_*.ipk
sudo opkg install git task-native-sdk python python-modules python-distutils python-misc python-subprocess
Installing node-inotify
git clone git://github.com/c4milo/node-inotify.git
cd node-inotify
node-waf configure build
node-waf install # installs locally
npm install inotify has the (dis)advantage of installing to the same location as node,
which is in /usr in the case of opkg install nodejs
NOTE: The python modules may not all need to be installed. I'm unsure.
Test
test-inotify.js
Appendix
Errors you get when /var/volatile is full:
And actually, you get a lot of other miscellaneous errors too.
sudo opkg install ./python-subprocess_2.6.5-ml12.1.6_armv7a.ipk
Collected errors:
* pkg_init_from_file: Malformed package file ../python-subprocess_2.6.5-ml12.1.6_armv7a.ipk.
Errors you get without the wafadmin tools:
node-waf configure build
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/node-waf", line 14, in <module>
import Scripting
ImportError: No module named Scripting
Errors you get without the python-subprocess module:
node-waf configure build
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/node-waf", line 14, in <module>
import Scripting
File "/usr/bin/../lib/node/wafadmin/Scripting.py", line 9, in <module>
import Utils, Configure, Build, Logs, Options, Environment, Task
File "/usr/bin/../lib/node/wafadmin/Utils.py", line 43, in <module>
import subprocess as pproc
ImportError: No module named subprocess
Errors you get when nodejs-dev is not installed:
node-waf configure build
Checking for program g++ or c++ : /usr/bin/g++
Checking for program cpp : /usr/bin/cpp
Checking for program ar : /usr/bin/ar
Checking for program ranlib : /usr/bin/ranlib
Checking for g++ : ok
Checking for node path : not found
Checking for node prefix : ok /usr
Checking for program node : /usr/bin/node
Checking for function inotify_init : yes
'configure' finished successfully (2.605s)
Waf: Entering directory `/home/user/node-inotify/build'
[1/3] cxx: src/node_inotify.cc -> build/default/src/node_inotify_1.o
In file included from ../src/bindings.h:4,
from ../src/node_inotify.cc:2:
../src/node_inotify.h:5:18: error: node.h: No such file or directory
../src/node_inotify.h:6:25: error: node_events.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../src/bindings.h:4,
from ../src/node_inotify.cc:2:
../src/node_inotify.h:15: error: 'v8' is not a namespace-name
../src/node_inotify.h:15: error: expected namespace-name before ';' token
../src/node_inotify.h:16: error: 'node' is not a namespace-name
../src/node_inotify.h:16: error: expected namespace-name before ';' token
In file included from ../src/node_inotify.cc:2:
../src/bindings.h:8: error: expected class-name before '{' token
../src/bindings.h:10: error: 'Handle' has not been declared
../src/bindings.h:10: error: expected ',' or '...' before '<' token
../src/bindings.h:16: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Handle' with no type
../src/bindings.h:16: error: expected ';' before '<' token
../src/bindings.h:17: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Handle' with no type
../src/bindings.h:17: error: expected ';' before '<' token
../src/bindings.h:18: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Handle' with no type
../src/bindings.h:18: error: expected ';' before '<' token
../src/bindings.h:19: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Handle' with no type
../src/bindings.h:19: error: expected ';' before '<' token
../src/bindings.h:20: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Handle' with no type
../src/bindings.h:20: error: expected ';' before '<' token
../src/bindings.h:25: error: 'ev_io' does not name a type
../src/bindings.h:27: error: 'EV_P_' has not been declared
../src/bindings.h:27: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
../src/node_inotify.cc:5: error: variable or field 'InitializeInotify' declared void
../src/node_inotify.cc:5: error: 'Handle' was not declared in this scope
../src/node_inotify.cc:5: error: 'Object' was not declared in this scope
../src/node_inotify.cc:5: error: 'target' was not declared in this scope
../src/node_inotify.cc:20: warning: 'init' initialized and declared 'extern'
../src/node_inotify.cc:20: error: variable or field 'init' declared void
../src/node_inotify.cc:20: error: 'Handle' was not declared in this scope
../src/node_inotify.cc:20: error: 'Object' was not declared in this scope
../src/node_inotify.cc:20: error: 'target' was not declared in this scope
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/user/node-inotify/build'
Build failed: -> task failed (err #1):
{task: cxx node_inotify.cc -> node_inotify_1.o}