sharp still requires brew for OS X / macOS Sierra

UPDATE: See answer below BUT you can use lipo as an alternative to sharp → https://lipo.io

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Myself and 3 others had the issue https://github.com/ladjs/lad/issues/258

Library not loaded: @rpath/libvips-cpp.42.dylib

We are all on Mac OS X or macOS Sierra platforms.

To workaround this, we had to run:

brew install homebrew/science/vips --with-webp --with-graphicsmagick

Then rm -rf node_modules/sharp and yarn install again to recompile.

I think that the installation instructions need updated.

[ifiokjr]

This issue cropped up for me after updating to macOS Mojave. I had been using sharp without issues prior to this.

A variation of the first comment worked for me.

brew  install vips --with-webp --with-graphicsmagick
rm -rf node_modules && yarn;

[lovell]

@goldo Thanks, I don’t believe this problem and #937 are related, so have re-opened the latter for separate tracking.