Provide Prebuild binaries

Question

Provide Prebuild binaries

neophob opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

I'm working on a Electron app, mainly on OSX but want to run on a RPi (obviously). Anyway by RPi build from my OSX did not work as expected, after some debugging I ended up on https://www.electron.build/multi-platform-build:

If your app has native dependency, it can be compiled only on the target platform unless prebuild is not used.
prebuild is a solution, but most node modules don’t provide prebuilt binaries.

Tbh I'm not really sure what this exactly means - IF prebuild is used "crosscompile" works?

Jonathan Perkin · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 10 2020 05:05:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This won't work. You can use rpio in mock mode to test on macOS, but proper use will require direct access to the hardware on Linux.

Michael Vogt · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 10 2020 05:40:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

thanks @jperkin for your feedback. I like the mock feature very much on OSX.

The intend of this issue is to provide compiled nodejs binaries for the rpi (armv7l) - with prebuild (https://www.npmjs.com/package/prebuild). This would make installing the library easier and it would "just work" for electron as example. What's you view about that?

Jonathan Perkin · Answer 3 · Thu Sep 10 2020 05:50:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I don't like it, but there's nothing stopping you from building your own.