Continue with package installation if node-gyp fails

[Pascal Mathis]

Hello everyone

I am currently trying to offer an optional native library for my own Node.js package. My library actually works 6+ (up to 20, didn't test further) times faster than with the plain JS implementation. The drawback: It requires libcrypto++-dev, otherwise the build will fail. Also, it will not work on Windows operating systems. What I am trying to do is to make the node-gyp build process optional, so that npm would continue with installing the package, even if node-gyp fails. Is there any way to do that? I've already looked through various example gyp-files and stumbled upon some documentations, but was not able to find a solution.

Thanks in advance for your answer and have a nice evening!

Best regards

Pascal

[Elijah Insua]

https://www.npmjs.org/doc/package.json.html#optionalDependencies

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[Pascal Mathis]

Thanks for your answer, Elijah. I know that already, but I would rather prefer to -not- split my native library into a new package. It is just a single .cpp & binding.gyp file and I don't like the idea of having 2 separate repositories. Thats why I was looking for any sort of option which would tell npm: "Hey, node-gyp failed, it doesn't matter, the package is still fine." Is there anything like that?

[Tom Boutell]

I believe the BSON npm package achieves this. If it can't go native it offers up a pure js implementation instead.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/bson

[Ryan Graham]

I think you're looking for something like this:

"install": "node-gyp rebuild || exit 0"

Putting that in the scripts section of your module's package.json will prevent the installation of the module from failing just because node-gyp fails.

~Ryan
https://twitter.com/rmgraham

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