How to: Convert C libraries to gyp

[Nathan Rajlich]

Calling all native module authors!

http://n8.io/converting-a-c-library-to-gyp/

Linked is a blog article I've written about converting C libraries to use gyp. If you have a native module that dynamically links to some external library, then you should definitely give it a read. So far I've applied this method to node-ffi (libffi), node-lame (libmp3lame) and node-expat (libexpat, still awaiting Pull Request merge from @astro), and it works great. Cheers!

[Ben Noordhuis]

Upvote for great good. Every module author should read it.

[Tim Caswell]

Sounds great, except I've been having trouble using gyp to
cross-compile. Is cross-compiling something that gyp supports. In
particular I want to compile for various arm variants and the mips
that's often found in routers.

I'd love to convert all my dependencies to using gyp, but if I can't
then cross-compile it will have been a waste of time when I need that.

Great work on the article! Sorry for hijacking the thread. It just
made me think of it.

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[Nathan Rajlich]

Tim, have you read http://n8.io/cross-compiling-nodejs-v0.8/ ?

[Tim Caswell]

Oh right. I'll forward that to my people who have been complaining.
Thanks again for all the awesome writeups.