failed to build native modules on after node 16 upgrade and MacOS upgrade

Question:

I’ve upgrade to MacOS Monterey (12.3.1) and Node 16. Since then I’m failed running installation on some node modules due to @newrelic/native-metrics with the following error:

Error running install script for optional dependency: "/Users/zivl/github/data-science-client/serverless/ml-platform-services/node_modules/@newrelic/native-metrics: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node ./lib/pre-build.js install native_metrics

when digging in the logs, I’ve found it is using node-gyp and python so I thought maybe due to upgrading I will need to re-install them – so I did so. but reinstalling node-gyp / python (inc. switching multiple python versions (3.7, 3.9, 3.10) – still didn’t help.

I checked the node-gyp logs and saw the following:

node-pre-gyp http 404 https://github.com/hyj1991/v8-profiler-node8/releases/download/v6.3.0/profiler-v6.3.0-node-v93-darwin-x64.tar.gz

node-pre-gyp WARN Tried to download(404): https://github.com/hyj1991/v8-profiler-node8/releases/download/v6.3.0/profiler-v6.3.0-node-v93-darwin-x64.tar.gz

node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v93 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
...
Failed to execute native-metrics install: No pre-built artifacts to download for your OS/architecture.

the v8-profiler-node8 has no version for node 16.
I’ve trying looking for it online and so far didn’t find any solution 🙁

Asked By: Ziv Levy

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Answers:

It would be better to eliminate such problem completely.

If possible containerize your app, for example with Docker.
Unless you are writing the application specifically for the Mac OS.

https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/

It will make sure this does not happen ever again, may be better than one off solution to this 🙂

Answered By: mpod

Eventually, what helped me solve the issue is doing one of the following:

  • install manually a global package of node-gyp and you should set the node to run that version only (read more about it online, I’ll try to find links but it is anywhere on the net).

  • switch to yarn 3 and pnpm and with those package managers the 3rd party scripts are not installed by default as in npm

  • you can always use npm install --ignore-scripts but it sucks to have this flag everywhere…

  • have two versions of python, python2 and python3 in pypenv global

I hoped this somehow helped you, other answers and solutions are more than welcome 🙂

Answered By: Ziv Levy