shared lib built with node-waf not working with node v0.6.11 on Mac OS X

[Stephen Bannasch]

I updated from node v0.6.10 to 0.6.11 on MacOS X 10.6.8 and contextify started reporting that the contextify.node shared
library doesn't work with node.

More details: https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify/issues/19

Seems like a strange problem ...

When I updated from v0.6.10 to 0.6.11 the date of the installed node-waf is older but the files appear identical.

$ node --version
v0.6.10

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/node-waf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 24561 wheel 355 Feb 2 19:56 /usr/local/bin/node-waf

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/node
-rwxr-xr-x 1 24561 wheel 6683464 Feb 2 19:59 /usr/local/bin/node

$ node --version
v0.6.11

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/node-waf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 24561 wheel 355 Jan 19 20:53 /usr/local/bin/node-waf

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/node
-rwxr-xr-x 1 24561 wheel 6021212 Feb 17 15:54 /usr/local/bin/node

[Ben Noordhuis]

What architectures are node and your add-on compiled for? Run `file
/usr/local/bin/node` and `file /path/to/contextify.node` and compare
the results.

[Stephen Bannasch]

Ahh ... v0.6.10 is a 64-bit executable:

$ node --version
v0.6.10
$ file `which node`
/usr/local/bin/node: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

But installing the latest version of node from the pkg hosted here results in a 32-bit executable:

http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.11/node-v0.6.11.pkg

$ node --version
v0.6.11
$ file `which node`
/usr/local/bin/node: Mach-O executable i386

This seems to be a mistake in the building/packaging of node-v0.6.11.pkg

In either case contextify builds a 64-bit shared library.