apm install error - plain npm works

[mensinda]

I want to write a plugin for atom and have a dependency. Unfortunately ffi (a subdependency) fails to build with apm while npm install ffi works.

As far as I know apm calls npm with some command line options, setting the chromium headers. Is it possible to use the default headers?

apm 0.136.0
npm 2.3.0
node 0.10.35
python 2.7.9
git 2.3.0

OS: Arch Linux (3.18.6-1-ARCH)

[kevinsawicki]

Is it possible to use the default headers?

For a native library to load within Atom or Atom Shell, it needs to be compiled against the v8 headers that Atom Shell ships with.

Can you include the output of the build error you are seeing?

[mensinda]

The compile error: https://gist.github.com/mensinda/7445c13f9b21ac2e5ce4

[kevinsawicki]

Looks like an issue with the nan version being used.

I think this might be addressed once nodejs/nan#276 ships.

[mensinda]

Upgrading nan fixed some compile errors but compiling ffi still fails.

It seems to be a ffi issue node-ffi/node-ffi#187.

[anaisbetts]

@mensinda To work around this, I created some temporary npm packages:

• ffi-atom-shell
• ref-atom-shell
• ref-struct-atom-shell
• ref-array-atom-shell

[mensinda]

@paulcbetts Thank you! Your packages are working for me.