Weird, not working just out of the box in the simplest scenario (details inside)

I literally just did npm install -g pkg followed by pkg main.js --out-path build/

(main.js being, of course, the name of my node script)

After running this (with no errors) I get three files (main-linux, main-macos, main-win.exe) on my build/ directory.

When I try to run build/main-macos it fails with the following message:

pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1185
      throw error;
      ^

Error: No native build was found for platform=darwin arch=x64 runtime=node abi=57 uv=1 libc=glibc
...

Any idea on why this is happening?

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Node version: v8.12.0 NPM version: 6.4.1 OS: MacOS 10.13.6

[christianbundy]

FWIW, I’m also having this problem with leveldown and libsodium. I’ll share any info if I can fix it. 🤞

[johnsonjo4531]

@lefuturiste @almosnow I was running into this issue too. I created a GitHub gist recreating the issue here (which has steps for reproduction and also shows the script runs normally without pkg): https://gist.github.com/johnsonjo4531/cbdace0097f9a658fd7c3ff439f5111e. My problem seems to be using the secure-password package. Here’s the rest of the stack trace which seems to indicate that node-gyp-build couldn’t find the build for sodium-native on the current platform:

> test@1.0.0 docker:run ~/Documents/code/docker/bins/test
> docker container run -t failed-pkg

pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1185
      throw error;
      ^

Error: No native build was found for platform=linux arch=x64 runtime=node abi=64 uv=1 libc=musl
    at Function.load.path (/snapshot/app/node_modules/node-gyp-build/index.js:56:9)
    at load (/snapshot/app/node_modules/node-gyp-build/index.js:20:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/snapshot/app/node_modules/sodium-native/index.js:1:101)
    at Module._compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1261:22)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:710:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:537:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:529:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:635:17)
    at Module.require (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1166:31)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! test@1.0.0 docker:run: `docker container run -t failed-pkg`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the test@1.0.0 docker:run 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!    ~/.npm/_logs/2019-09-12T00_50_15_707Z-debug.log