fatal error: nan.h: No such file or directory

[feio]

I need help. I'm trying to install a fresh copy of nodebb and I'm getting this error:

I've done the same procedure last week and the installation worked fine.

make: Entering directory /root/nodebb/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build' CXX(target) Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o ../src/validation.cc:15:17: fatal error: nan.h: No such file or directory #include "nan.h" ^ compilation terminated. make: *** [Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o] Error 1 make: Leaving directory /root/nodebb/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:270:23)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-71-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /root/nodebb/node_modules/utf-8-validate
gyp ERR! node -v v4.2.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.0.3
gyp ERR! not ok

Thanks in advance

[julian]

We don't have a module dependency for utf-8-validate, please remove it and try again...

[feio]

Thanks you Julian,

It worked. I deleted utf-8-validate and bufferutil section from npm-shrinkwrap.json and after
npm install --production, everithing gone well.

[julian]

Thanks @feio -- are you on v0.9.x branch? Interesting that it's in npm-shrinkwrap.json... I hope nobody else gets this error...!

[feio]

@julian yes, I'm using version 0.9.3.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

I got the same error when I pulled the last tag, however when I switched to the master branch the error disapeared.

[fbmac]

I am having this error, when trying to update my Dockerfile to use the v0.9.x branch. I will try the master.

[fbmac]

@feio @julian

I submitted the changes suggested by @feio in a PR, because I couldn't progress in updating my docker container to 0.9.x without them.

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/pull/4013

[julian]

Thanks @fbmac -- really weird that those were added to the shrinkwrap file. I did publish it in Node v5, so perhaps that is why?

[tednology]

I had this same problem after upgrading from 0.9.1 to 0.9.3 (running Node 4.2.2), ended up resolving by removing that utf-8-validate module from npm-shrinkwrap.json.

[julian]

@tednology Hm, I don't see that module defined in v0.9.x's npm-shrinkwrap.json...