Cannot npm install grpc-tools on arm

[Akos Kitta]

Problem description

I cannot install grpc-tools@1.9.0 on armv7l.

Reproduction steps

mkdir grpc-tools-test && cd grpc-tools-test && npm init -y && npm i -S grpc-tools

Error:

mkdir grpc-tools-test && cd grpc-tools-test && npm init -y && npm i -S grpc-tools
Wrote to /home/pi/dev/git/grpc-tools-test/package.json:

{
  "name": "grpc-tools-test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}



> grpc-tools@1.9.0 install /home/pi/dev/git/grpc-tools-test/node_modules/grpc-tools
> node-pre-gyp install

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download 
node-pre-gyp ERR! install error 
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: 404 status code downloading tarball https://node-precompiled-binaries.grpc.io/grpc-tools/v1.9.0/linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at PassThrough.<anonymous> (/home/pi/dev/git/grpc-tools-test/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/install.js:149:27)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at PassThrough.emit (events.js:194:15)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/pi/dev/git/grpc-tools-test/node_modules/needle/lib/needle.js:500:9)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:277:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:189:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient [as onIncoming] (_http_client.js:556:21)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:109:17)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:442:20)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:189:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:284:12)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.19.118-v7l+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/home/pi/.config/nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/node" "/home/pi/dev/git/grpc-tools-test/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/dev/git/grpc-tools-test/node_modules/grpc-tools
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.3
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.12.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok 
404 status code downloading tarball https://node-precompiled-binaries.grpc.io/grpc-tools/v1.9.0/linux-arm.tar.gz
npm WARN grpc-tools-test@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN grpc-tools-test@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! grpc-tools@1.9.0 install: `node-pre-gyp install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the grpc-tools@1.9.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-07-09T15_14_56_961Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/dev/git/grpc-tools-test $ 

Environment

• OS name, version and architecture: [e.g. Linux Ubuntu 18.04 amd64]: Linux raspberrypi 4.19.118-v7l+ #1311 SMP Mon Apr 27 14:26:42 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
• Node version [e.g. 8.10.0]: 10.15.3
• Node installation method [e.g. nvm]: nvm
• If applicable, compiler version [e.g. clang 3.8.0-2ubuntu4] ?
• Package name and version [e.g. gRPC@1.12.0] ?

Additional context

I would like to build a gRPC capable electron app for armhf and arm64. I already switched from grpc to @grpc/grpc-js as there are no pre-builds for electron for ARM. But I cannot install grpc-tools to generate my JS/TS API as part of the build step, as I cannot pull grpc-tools in. Is there a recommended way to work around this? Thank you!

[Michael Lumish]

It is true that we do not distribute ARM builds of grpc-tools. I recommend doing your code generation on a non-ARM machine and then copying the files over.

[Akos Kitta]

It is true that we do not distribute ARM builds of grpc-tools.

Thanks for confirming it!

I recommend doing your code generation on a non-ARM machine and then copying the files over.

OK, I had the same idea.

Closing it; there is a workaround.

[Leon Held]

Sorry for commenting on a closed issue, but

I recommend doing your code generation on a non-ARM machine and then copying the files over.

Wouldn't we still need grpc-js anyway?

[Michael Lumish]

grpc-js is all JavaScript, so it should work fine on all platforms, including ARM.

[Leon Held]

Yea, a coworker of mine pointed that out earlier this morning. I went the "I don't really know what I'm doing" route and did this

RUN git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node.git && cd grpc-node/packages/grpc-js && npm install --unsafe-perm && npm link
then simply link it with npm on my project.

Thanks!

[Michael Lumish]

You can also just npm install @grpc/grpc-js.

[Leon Held]

Oh, that's absolutely true. I think I got things messed up and thought grpc-js had grps-tools as a dependency, but it's all nice clean TypeScript. Really convenient. Appreciate your replies!