Fatal error encountered while installing rclnodejs on macOS Catalina & Node.JS v12

 rongshen@rs   ~/tmp/ros2/pub  npm i rclnodejs -S                                                                                    10099  11:44:07 

> int64-napi@1.0.1 install /Users/rongshen/tmp/ros2/pub/node_modules/int64-napi
> node-gyp rebuild

  CC(target) Release/obj.target/int64/src/int64.o
../src/int64.c:55:54: warning: incompatible pointer types passing 'uint64_t *' (aka 'unsigned long long *') to parameter of type 'size_t *'
      (aka 'unsigned long *') [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
        napi_get_buffer_info(env, _raw, (void**)raw, &rawLength);
                                                     ^~~~~~~~~~
/Users/rongshen/Library/Caches/node-gyp/12.13.1/include/node/node_api.h:142:54: note: passing argument to parameter 'length' here
                                             size_t* length);
                                                     ^
1 warning generated.
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/int64.node

> ref-napi@2.0.2 install /Users/rongshen/tmp/ros2/pub/node_modules/ref-napi
> node-gyp-build


> rclnodejs@0.14.0 install /Users/rongshen/tmp/ros2/pub/node_modules/rclnodejs
> node-gyp rebuild

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/rclnodejs/src/addon.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/rclnodejs/src/executor.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/rclnodejs/src/handle_manager.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/rclnodejs/src/rcl_action_bindings.o
../src/rcl_action_bindings.cpp:631:5: warning: ignoring return value of function declared with 'warn_unused_result' attribute [-Wunused-result]
    rcl_action_cancel_response_fini(cancel_response_ptr);
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning generated.
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/rclnodejs/src/rcl_bindings.o
../src/rcl_bindings.cpp:32:10: fatal error: 'rosidl_generator_c/string_functions.h' file not found
#include <rosidl_generator_c/string_functions.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/rclnodejs/src/rcl_bindings.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/Users/rongshen/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 19.5.0
gyp ERR! command "/Users/rongshen/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.1/bin/node" "/Users/rongshen/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/rongshen/tmp/ros2/pub/node_modules/rclnodejs
gyp ERR! node -v v12.13.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN pub@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN pub@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! rclnodejs@0.14.0 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the rclnodejs@0.14.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/rongshen/.npm/_logs/2020-06-07T03_44_41_932Z-debug.log

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[wayneparrott]

edit: ops just saw @minggangw suggestion…

@zentala Sorry you are hitting this issue. Try installing as follows:

npm i rclnodejs@0.14.0

The most recent rclnodejs version is 0.14.1 which is only compatible with the latest ros2 foxy release. The rclnodejs v0.14.0 is the most recent version compatible with ros2 eloquent.

Action item will be to revisit the docs to see if we can make the version compatibility info more prominent on npmjs.

[minggangw]

@zentala If you are running Eloquent, and you have to install rclnodejs 0.14.0

npm i rclnodejs@0.14.0