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Canvas installation is a problem.

See original GitHub issue

Hello, i am new on Node and trying to build a barcode generator based on data i pass, and i want to write that on pdf.

while I am able to install library for barcode, unable to install canvas - getting the following error.

canvas@1.6.3 install /Users/rahil/Documents/projects/tesco/node-pdf-download/node_modules/canvas

node-gyp rebuild

./util/has_lib.sh: line 31: pkg-config: command not found gyp: Call to ‘./util/has_lib.sh freetype’ returned exit status 0 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:305:16) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12) gyp ERR! System Darwin 15.6.0 gyp ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “rebuild” gyp ERR! cwd /Users/rahil/Documents/projects/tesco/node-pdf-download/node_modules/canvas gyp ERR! node -v v7.2.1 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm WARN node-pdf-download@1.0.0 No description npm WARN node-pdf-download@1.0.0 No repository field. npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0 npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “canvas” npm ERR! node v7.2.1 npm ERR! npm v3.10.10 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! canvas@1.6.3 install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the canvas@1.6.3 install script ‘node-gyp rebuild’. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the canvas package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs canvas npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls canvas npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /Users/rahil/Documents/projects/tesco/node-pdf-download/npm-debug.log

Do i really need canvas, or can is there an alternative. Also, if you could help me to get this in pdf. I am using PDFKIT.