Node-waf: not found

Question

Here is the thing. My configuration is Ubuntu 13.04, Node.js v0.10.5 and NPM version 1.2.18.

I am trying to install node.js module \"shoe\" and I got this error:

Answer 1

I simply upgraded my node version (from 0.4.4 into 0.6.2), problem was resolved.

Answer 2

It's actually rbytes that's causing the issue.

To make it even more complex: rbytes isn't a direct dependency for shoe, but for sockjs. And looking at the code, that should function without rbytes too.

Since shoe declares is as an optional dependency, shoe does get installed:

npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing rbytes@0.0.2
         ^^^^^^^^             ^^^^^^^^^^        

So you should just be able to use it regardless of the warning.

Answer 3

node-waf has been replaced by node-gyp

Install node-gyp using: sudo npm install -g node-gyp

Note: To build with node-gyp the configuration file binding.gyp is required. Example:

{
  "targets": [
    {
      "target_name": "binding",
      "sources": [ "src/binding.cc" ]
    }
  ]
}

Answer 4

I haven't had luck getting node-waf on my machine, so I decided to fork the thing and migrate it to node-gyp so that it works.

My fork is at https://github.com/eddydas/node-sleep

To get it work, first make sure you have node-gyp by

$ npm install node-gyp

Then, clone the entire project from GitHub (either by ZIP or Git, it's up to you) and install from it.

$ cd ~
$ wget "https://codeload.github.com/eddydas/node-sleep/zip/master"
$ unzip master
$ cd YOUR_NODE_JS_PROJECT_FOLDER
$ npm install ~/node-sleep-master

I tried my best to make the thing work. If it doesn't go smooth, please feel free to let me know. Hope it helps!