Node-gyp: macOS build error

[stoneWeb]

Error: /usr/local/bin/node exited with code 1
Output:

> @paulcbetts/[email protected] install /Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/@paulcbetts/system-idle-time
> node-gyp rebuild

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/system_idle_time/src/module.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/system_idle_time/src/mac/idle.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/system_idle_time.node

Error output:
clang: warning: libstdc++ is deprecated; move to libc++ with a minimum deployment target of OS X 10.9 [-Wdeprecated]
ld: library not found for -lstdc++
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [Release/system_idle_time.node] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:254:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/@paulcbetts/system-idle-time
gyp ERR! node -v v11.2.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @paulcbetts/[email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @paulcbetts/[email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/lei/.npm/_logs/2019-07-16T07_00_00_331Z-debug.log

    at ChildProcess.childProcess.once.code (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/builder-util/src/util.ts:244:14)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:273:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:978:16)
    at Socket.stream.socket.on (internal/child_process.js:395:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at Pipe._handle.close (net.js:616:12)
From previous event:
    at _rebuild (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/app-builder-lib/src/util/yarn.ts:179:5)
    at rebuild (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/util/yarn.js:163:19)
    at /Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/app-builder-lib/src/util/yarn.ts:20:11
From previous event:
    at _installOrRebuild (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/util/yarn.js:71:28)
    at installOrRebuild (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/util/yarn.js:55:28)
    at /Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/electron-builder/src/cli/install-app-deps.ts:58:9
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at processImmediate (timers.js:632:19)
From previous event:
    at _installAppDeps (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/electron-builder/out/cli/install-app-deps.js:177:26)
    at installAppDeps (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/electron-builder/out/cli/install-app-deps.js:146:26)
    at then (/Users/lei/project/electron/talk/node_modules/electron-builder/src/cli/cli.ts:49:19)

How do I solve it？

[iamkarlson]

This issue appears again and again. Exactly the same error for me

[cclauss]

What does the command __sw_vers__ return?

[rvagg]

you might need to upgrade, or reinstall your xcode (or xcode commandline tools).

[cclauss]

The Pandas team did this: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/23424#issuecomment-446393981

[bnoordhuis]

I'm going to close this as 'answered'. It's not a node-gyp issue.

[iamkarlson]

@bnoordhuis if it's not a node-gyp issue, maybe you can provide us with more details? or point to the FAQ where's explained how we can overcome it? it's a terribly bad situation and everybody continue blaming node-gyp for such unintuitive log.

[nfranzmeier]

I ran into this issue also when trying to build a working ionic-2 project after upgrading to Catalina from High Sierra. Everything worked fine on High Sierra but when I upgraded I ran into the issue described by stoneWeb when doing the initial

npm install to install all the packages needed for my project.

clang: warning: libstdc++ is deprecated; move to libc++ with a minimum deployment target of OS X 10.9 [-Wdeprecated]
ld: library not found for -lstdc++
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

After spending a whole day trying to figure out another "correct" mix of updated node module versions to pull, it came down to either patching a bunch of node modules or figuring out a way to convince clang to use the more recent version so I ended up writing a quick 'C' program to execute clang++ with updated parameters - basically overriding any passed in arguments with -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 or something old and changing it to -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 dynamically without me having to patch various node modules.

See the attached program.
To use it just build it with something like:

gcc clang_force.c -o clang_force

then copy it to /usr/local/bin
cp clang_force /usr/local/bin
then change the CXX environment variable to use it.
export CXX=/usr/local/bin/clang_force

That's it. Then just do the npm install again and everything is good. Hope someone finds it useful.

clang_force.c.zip

[rinogo]

For those who hit this via Google: Updating to a newer version of Node seems to fix the problem for me.

[nfranzmeier]

For this particular project we were forced to stay at the version of node we were at due to legacy compatibility issues...

[mikaey]

I was able to get around this by running the following prior to npm install:

export CPPFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.9"
export CFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.9"
export LDFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.9"