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node-gyp is a cross-platform command-line tool written in Node.js for compiling native addon modules for Node.js. It uses node.js's build system and requires Python, making it a complex but powerful tool for building and managing native modules.
Building native addon modules
This command compiles the native addon module for the current platform. It needs to be run in the root directory of the module.
node-gyp rebuild
Configuration
This command generates appropriate project build files for the current platform. It can be used before 'node-gyp build' to configure the project.
node-gyp configure
Compiling
This command compiles the native addon module using the generated build files. It should be run after 'node-gyp configure'.
node-gyp build
Cleaning
This command removes any build artifacts or temporary files created during the build process.
node-gyp clean
node-pre-gyp allows for publishing and installing Node.js C++ addons from binaries. It is similar to node-gyp but focuses on the end-user experience by facilitating the deployment of pre-compiled binaries.
neon-cli is a tool for building native Node.js modules with Rust. It provides an alternative to node-gyp for developers who prefer Rust over C++ for writing high-performance Node.js native modules.
cmake-js is a Node.js native addon build tool which works like node-gyp but uses CMake for building the native modules. It is useful for projects that already use CMake as their build system.
node-ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed. It is similar to node-gyp but uses the Ninja build system instead of Make or Visual Studio project files.
node-gyp
is a cross-platform command-line tool written in Node.js for compiling
native addon modules for Node.js, which takes away the pain of dealing with the
various differences in build platforms. It is the replacement to the node-waf
program which is removed for node v0.8
. If you have a native addon for node that
still has a wscript
file, then you should definitely add a bindings.gyp
file
to support the latest versions of node.
Multiple target versions of node are supported (i.e. 0.7
, 0.8
, 1.0
, etc.),
regardless of what version of node is actually installed on your system
(node-gyp
downloads the necessary development files for the target version).
To install with npm
, invoke:
$ npm install -g node-gyp
You will also need to install:
python
make
To compile your native addon, first go to its root directory:
$ cd my_node_addon
From here, you can invoke the node-gyp
executable. The next step is to generate
the appropriate project build files for the current platform. Use configure
for
that:
$ node-gyp configure
Note: The configure
step looks for the first .gyp
file in the current
directory to processs. See below for instructions on creating the .gyp
file.
Now you will have either a Makefile
(on Unix platforms) or a
vcxproj
file (on Windows) in the current directory. Next invoke the build
step:
$ node-gyp build
Now you have your compiled .node
bindings file! The compiled bindings end up in
out/Debug
or out/Release
, depending on the build mode. At this point you can
require the .node
file with Node and run your tests!
Note: To create a Debug build of the bindings file, pass the --debug
(or
-d
) switch to build
.
(Optional) Copy the compiled bindings into an appropriate directory for
runtime loading detection (with node-bindings), using the copy
command:
$ node-gyp copy
So for example, if you are on a 64-bit OS X machine and your target node version
is 0.7
, then the copy
command above would copy the bindings from
out/Release/bindings.node
to compiled/0.7/darwin/x64/bindings.node
.
Previously when node had node-waf
you had to write a wscript
file. The
replacement for that is the bindings.gyp
file, which describes the configuration
to build your module in a JSON-like format. A barebones gyp
file appropriate for
building a node addon looks like:
{
'targets': [
{
'target_name': 'bindings',
'sources': [ 'src/bindings.cc' ]
}
]
}
Some additional resources:
node-gyp
responds to the following commands:
build
- Invokes make
/msbuild.exe
and builds the native addonclean
- Removes any generated project files and the out
dirconfigure
- Generates project build files for the current platformcopy
- Copies a compiled bindings to an appropriate dir for runtime detectioninstall
- Installs node development files for the given version. Respects http_proxy/HTTP_PROXY and --proxy= when downloading.list
- Lists the currently installed node development file versionsremove
- Removes a node development files for a given version(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 Nathan Rajlich <nathan@tootallnate.net>
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