Lambda: can't install with static libvips

I need to compile libvips since the bundled one with sharp doesn’t support bmp, and I want to run this inside aws lambda so I am compiling libvips as a static library. This is done in the amazonlinux docker container.

I ran into 2 problems.

1. During npm install

bash-4.2# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/vips/lib/pkgconfig/ npm install --runtime_link=static -prefix=~/sharp_test --unsafe-perm sharp
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> sharp@0.17.1 install /root/sharp_test/node_modules/sharp
> node-gyp rebuild

readelf: Error: '/root/vips/lib/libvips-cpp.so': No such file
gyp: Call to 'if readelf -Ws "$(PKG_CONFIG_PATH=":$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig" pkg-config --variable libdir vips-cpp)/libvips-cpp.so" | c++filt | grep -qF __cxx11;then echo "1";else echo "0";fi' returned exit status 0 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp

These are the flags I used to install vips ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --prefix=$HOME/vips I got around this by removing --disable-shared Does sharp really need both shared and static libraries of libvips?

1. After that I got another error during npm install

bash-4.2# PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/vips/lib/pkgconfig/ npm install --runtime_link=static -prefix=~/sharp_test --unsafe-perm sharp
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> sharp@0.17.1 install /root/sharp_test/node_modules/sharp
> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory `/root/sharp_test/node_modules/sharp/build'
  TOUCH Release/obj.target/libvips-cpp.stamp
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/metadata.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/operations.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/pipeline.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/sharp.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/utilities.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/sharp.node
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljbig
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lffi
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Release/obj.target/sharp.node] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/root/sharp_test/node_modules/sharp/build'

[kevinchn]

I got it working locally with shared libraries, but I’m getting an error when it runs on AWS lambda

module initialization error: Error
at Error (native)
at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:434:18)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js:8:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/var/task/node_modules/sharp/lib/index.js:3:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)

Which looks like something inside build/Release/sharp.node I’m not really sure what this means. Any ideas?

Nevermind, AWS didn’t show the specific error for some reason. I had to use the “Test” button to see it. It seems like libwebp and libexif couldn’t be found even though Amazon listed them in the list of packages (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2016.03-packages/). I added those inside my zip and it works now. Thanks!

[ismailqau]

Worked for me:

1. Build and installed normally (with libpoppler support)
2. copied libvips.so.42 and libvips-cpp.so.42 from /usr/local/lib/ to /usr/lib/