Node-waf: not found

Question

Here is the thing. My configuration is Ubuntu 13.04, Node.js v0.10.5 and NPM version 1.2.18.

I am trying to install node.js module "shoe" and I got this error:

marek@nassenfuss:/media/tc/examples/node/05.01$ sudo npm install
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/shoe
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/shoe
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-uuid/1.3.3
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/faye-websocket/0.4.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/rbytes/0.0.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-uuid/1.3.3
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/rbytes/0.0.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/faye-websocket/0.4.0

> [email protected] install /media/tc/examples/node/05.01/node_modules/shoe/node_modules/sockjs/node_modules/rbytes
> node-waf configure build

sh: 1: node-waf: not found
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
[email protected] node_modules/shoe
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])
marek@nassenfuss:/media/tc/examples/node/05.01$

I was googling and I found that node-waf was replaced with node-gyp. I also found that node-waf can be installed with

sudo apt-get install nodejs-dev

The problem is that I am using the lastest node.js package by Chris Lea which does not include dev anymore. So there are two options to solve the problem.

First, I could install node-waf (from source?), but I do not how.

Second, I could (manually) repair the module, but I do not how.

I am looking for any solution.

Answer 1

node-waf has been replaced by node-gyp

Install node-gyp using: sudo npm install -g node-gyp

Note: To build with node-gyp the configuration file binding.gyp is required. Example:

{
  "targets": [
    {
      "target_name": "binding",
      "sources": [ "src/binding.cc" ]
    }
  ]
}

Answer 2

It's actually rbytes that's causing the issue.

To make it even more complex: rbytes isn't a direct dependency for shoe, but for sockjs. And looking at the code, that should function without rbytes too.

Since shoe declares is as an optional dependency, shoe does get installed:

npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
         ^^^^^^^^             ^^^^^^^^^^        

So you should just be able to use it regardless of the warning.

Answer 3

I haven't had luck getting node-waf on my machine, so I decided to fork the thing and migrate it to node-gyp so that it works.

My fork is at https://github.com/eddydas/node-sleep

To get it work, first make sure you have node-gyp by

$ npm install node-gyp

Then, clone the entire project from GitHub (either by ZIP or Git, it's up to you) and install from it.

$ cd ~
$ wget "https://codeload.github.com/eddydas/node-sleep/zip/master"
$ unzip master
$ cd YOUR_NODE_JS_PROJECT_FOLDER
$ npm install ~/node-sleep-master

I tried my best to make the thing work. If it doesn't go smooth, please feel free to let me know. Hope it helps!