prebuild-install
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Package description
The prebuild-install npm package is used to install prebuilt binaries for Node.js modules, if available, before falling back to building from source. This can significantly speed up installation times and avoid the need for a full development environment with build tools like gcc or Visual Studio.
Installing prebuilt binaries
Automatically downloads and installs prebuilt binaries for a module if they are available for the current platform and Node.js version. If prebuilt binaries are not available, it will fall back to building from source.
npm install --save <module-name>Custom binary hosting
Allows specifying custom hosting URLs and tag prefixes for prebuilt binaries, enabling the use of private or alternative binary hosting solutions.
npm install --build-from-source --prebuild-tag-prefix="<custom-prefix>-" --prebuild-download="<custom-hosting-url>"Skipping prebuilt binary download
Forces the installation process to compile the module from source, bypassing the download of prebuilt binaries.
npm install --build-from-sourcenode-pre-gyp is a similar package that facilitates the installation of precompiled binaries for Node.js modules. It differs from prebuild-install in its configuration and build process, but serves a similar purpose of avoiding the need to compile modules from source.
node-gyp is not a direct alternative to prebuild-install but is often used in conjunction with it. node-gyp is a cross-platform command-line tool for compiling Node.js native addon modules from source. It is used when prebuilt binaries are not available or when a build from source is explicitly requested.
prebuild is a tool for creating and managing prebuilt binaries for Node.js modules. It is often used in tandem with prebuild-install. While prebuild is focused on the creation of the binaries, prebuild-install is designed for the end-user installation experience.
Readme
A command line tool for easily install prebuilds for multiple version of node/iojs on a specific platform.
prebuild-install supports installing prebuilt binaries from GitHub by default.
Change your package.json install script to:
...
"scripts": {
"install": "prebuild-install -d || node-gyp rebuild"
}
...
You need to provide prebuilds made by prebuild
prebuild-install [options]
--download -d [url] (download prebuilds, no url means github)
--no-prebuild (skip prebuild download)
--path -p path (make a prebuild-install here)
--debug (set Debug or Release configuration)
--verbose (log verbosely)
--version (print prebuild-install version and exit)
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We found that prebuild-install demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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