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Comment 32 for bug 1779863

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Nicolas Noble (grumpycoder) wrote : Re: [Bug 1779863] Re: Ubuntu nodejs package isn't ABI compatible with mainline nodejs.

While it's theorically possible to bypass node-gyp, I'm not aware of any
actively used method that would do so. The node-gyp is a bundled dependency
of npm, and is the code that parses the native module information (the
bindings.gyp file that is), in order to generate the Makefile that will
build the module. This Makefile will contain all the appropriate hard-coded
information pertaining to the version of the runtime this module needs to
be build against, including the path to the openssl headers that node-gyp
just downloaded for the runtime in its local cache folder.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 20:01 Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Nicolas, thanks for the clarification. Just to be sure, is node-gyp the
> *only* way to build binary add-ons for node, or is it possible that some
> users have built add-ons using some other build system?
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