npm install fail on mac

[khwaja]

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/memwatch npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/memwatch

[email protected] install /Applications/hammersmith/khwaja/delApiKey/hs-web-service/hs-web-service/node_modules/memwatch node-gyp rebuild

CXX(target) Release/obj.target/memwatch/src/heapdiff.o make: c++: No such file or directory make: *** [Release/obj.target/memwatch/src/heapdiff.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:255:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:99:17) gyp ERR! stack at Process._handle.onexit (child_process.js:678:10) gyp ERR! System Darwin 12.2.0 gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /Applications/hammersmith/khwaja/delApiKey/hs-web-service/hs-web-service/node_modules/memwatch gyp ERR! node -v v0.8.18 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.8.2 gyp ERR! not ok npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! sh "-c" "node-gyp rebuild" failed with 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the memwatch package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls memwatch npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Darwin 12.2.0 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "memwatch" npm ERR! cwd /Applications/hammersmith/khwaja/delApiKey/hs-web-service/hs-web-service/node_modules npm ERR! node -v v0.8.18 npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.2 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /Applications/hammersmith/khwaja/delApiKey/hs-web-service/hs-web-service/node_modules/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0

[khwaja]

After setting the the environment variable CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH, npm install pass.

[smcelhinney]

My issue was an old version of Node. I upgraded using npm (details here: http://davidwalsh.name/upgrade-nodejs) - worked fine after that.

[dexdexdex]

I had a very similar thing happen to me. It turns out after I downloaded and installed xcode everything was fine.