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Builds Fail on WSL

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I am having issues building anything with node-gyp in Ubuntu 16.04 under Windows Subsystem for Linux. Is it my error or is node-gyp known to not work under WSL?

I have the following installed: node-gyp 3.6.1 make (4.1-6) gcc 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 npm 3.10.10 nodejs v6.10.3 python 2.7

I have set the python path using npm config set python /usr/lib/python2.7

I have verified that Python is installed in that location.

I attempted to install sharp using the command line sudo npm install sharp --save

I have attached the debug log. sharp.zip

I also saw failures when trying to install bcrypt with npm install --build-from-source bcrypt bcrypt.zip

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:14 (4 by maintainers)

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Dogyunjeongcommented, Jun 7, 2020

I have same issue and

npm install -g npm
npm install -g node-gyp make

solved problem. I am not sure what caused problem. but works fine now.

10reactions

kevingilbert100commented, Dec 30, 2017

This is still an issue.

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