Not building uws correctly?

I’m not sure if this is a bug per-se because i don’t know who is building uws, but the problem is manifesting itself there and the only module requiring it is this one so here i am.

You want to:

• report a bug?

Current behaviour

error on build in uws

Expected behaviour

not to error on build

Setup

• OS: mac osx
• browser: electron
• engine.io version: 3.1.3

Other information (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)

in stdout

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _SSL_library_init
  Referenced from: /Users/michaelmclaughlin/Sites/specless/cloud-compiler/sync/node_modules/uws/uws_darwin_57.node
  Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: _SSL_library_init
  Referenced from: /Users/michaelmclaughlin/Sites/specless/cloud-compiler/sync/node_modules/uws/uws_darwin_57.node
  Expected in: flat namespace

in build log

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/uws/src/Extensions.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/uws/src/Group.o
In file included from ../src/Group.cpp:1:
In file included from ../src/Group.h:4:
In file included from ../src/WebSocket.h:4:
In file included from ../src/WebSocketProtocol.h:5:
../src/Networking.h:7:10: fatal error: 'openssl/opensslv.h' file not found
#include <openssl/opensslv.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/uws/src/Group.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:258:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 16.7.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.4.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/michaelmclaughlin/Sites/specless/cloud-compiler/sync/node_modules/uws
gyp ERR! node -v v8.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok 

[ghost]

1. uws is not an Electron module. It is a Node.js module. This is clearly stated in the README and FAQ. You’re far from the first one to report such a “bug”.

2. uws is not a PlayStation 4 game. It is also not an app for Windows Phone. Neither is it a swimming pool. It is a Node.js module.

3. uws (for Node.js) has precompiled binaries and will gracefully fall back to these if compilation fails. Also, there is no need whatsoever to tinker with headers like @vincentbriglia - that’s not even the proper way! Nobody tells you to mix and match like that! “npm install uws” is official, nothing else!

4. Electron is not even a server project!

[airtoxin]

Set environment variable export EIO_WS_ENGINE=ws to use ws instead of uws.