Nodewii fails to build

[guiman]

Hi there, we are trying to use this library and we cant build it. This is the system information;

Node: (0.8.5 and also tried with 0.6.5)
Ubuntu 12.04

The message displayed is:

[email protected] preinstall /home/alvaro/project_wii/node_modules/nodewii
./configure

Checking for program gcc or cc : /usr/bin/gcc
Checking for program cpp : /usr/bin/cpp
Checking for program ar : /usr/bin/ar
Checking for program ranlib : /usr/bin/ranlib
Checking for program g++ or c++ : /usr/bin/g++
Checking for program ar : /usr/bin/ar
Checking for program ranlib : /usr/bin/ranlib
Checking for g++ : ok
Checking for node path : ok /home/alvaro/node-v0.6.5
Checking for node prefix : ok /usr/local
'configure' finished successfully (0.116s)

[email protected] install /home/alvaro/project_wii/node_modules/nodewii
make

Waf: Entering directory /home/alvaro/project_wii/node_modules/nodewii/build' [1/3] cxx: src/base.cc -> build/Release/src/base_1.o [2/3] cxx: src/wiimote.cc -> build/Release/src/wiimote_1.o ../src/base.cc:7:25: error fatal: node_events.h: No existe el archivo o el directorio ../src/wiimote.cc:8:25: error fatal: node_events.h: No existe el archivo o el directorio compilación terminada. compilación terminada. Waf: Leaving directory/home/alvaro/project_wii/node_modules/nodewii/build'
Build failed:
-> task failed (err #1):
{task: cxx base.cc -> base_1.o}
-> task failed (err #1):
{task: cxx wiimote.cc -> wiimote_1.o}
make: *** [build_bindings] Error 1
npm ERR! error installing [email protected] Error: [email protected] install: make
npm ERR! error installing [email protected] sh "-c" "make" failed with 2
npm ERR! error installing [email protected] at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/exec.js:49:20)
npm ERR! error installing [email protected] at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:70:17)
npm ERR! error installing [email protected] at maybeExit (child_process.js:359:16)
npm ERR! error installing [email protected] at Process.onexit (child_process.js:395:5)
npm ERR! [email protected] install: make
npm ERR! sh "-c" "make" failed with 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the nodewii package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! make
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls nodewii
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 3.0.0-12-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "nodewii"
npm ERR! cwd /home/alvaro/project_wii
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.5
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-alpha-6
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! message [email protected] install: make
npm ERR! message sh "-c" "make" failed with 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/alvaro/project_wii/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

Any ideas?

[tbranyen]

Because this was written during the node-waf era. This project needs to be ported to node-gyp, can you take a stab at it and pull request if you get it working?

[TooTallNate]

node_events.h no longer exists, so it looks like some of the code will need updating as well.

[dpaez]

@guiman and me forked this. Thanks to @AndoniZubimendi who help us with the c++ side we could build it with current node (0.8.4) using node-gyp. Feel free to go there and take a look, right now we are having some issues with the events, its like they weren't happening.