when trying to configure or rebuild node-gyp, getting errors: mac osx mavericks

Question

I'm trying to run node-gyp configure, but am getting the following errors:

gyp: binding.gyp not found (cwd: /usr/local/bin)
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:337:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/node-gyp" "configure"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/bin
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.20
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok 

I think that I'm in the wrong directory, but I'm not sure. Which directory should I be in to run this?

Answer 1

You are trying to run node-gyp rebuild in current working directory (CWD) /usr/local/bin so the node-gyp can not find binding at /usr/local/bin/binding.gyp.

Navigate your terminal to a directory which contains NodeJS module and only then run node-gyp rebuild.

cd ~/Projects/your-nodejs-native-module/
node-gyp rebuild

BTW I am not sure from which node version exactly but in modern versions, you can just run npm install in this directory and npm will run node-gyp rebuild for you.

cd ~/Projects/your-nodejs-native-module/
npm install