How do you recommend adding additional platforms like Linux even though working from Win or Mac?

[kribblo]

How do you recommend adding additional platforms like Linux even though working from Win or Mac?

[yutongs-dmai]

I encountered same problem. Using a mac and trying to deploy a lambda function. It would be nice if you can implement some installation flags like
npm install --arch=x64 --platform=linux @ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg.

That way we can specify the actually binary we want to install.

@kribblo

[kribblo]

Not sure if there is an easy solution, the whole point of the project is to install a binary for the current platform, so if you are building images on one platform to then run on another it will not work. And it's not using any options or anything, rather using the environment to pull in the correct dependency.

There's a similar, older project (don't recall the name) that inspired this project, that pulled in all the binaries. I made this one because I didn't want to have 5 extra binaries. Could be one solution.

Otherwise, set up some simple way to build in a virtual environment? VirtualBox or something would work if you don't have Jenkins available. I don't think the NPM env variables can be overridden, otherwise that would also work.

It's just not the use case for the project, sadly. But if you come up with some good workaround I'll be happy to add it to the README or add pull requests.

[blogwy]

I suggest you not do that.

[isaacpearl]

@kribblo I was struggling with this problem for a while, and just opened a PR adding my simple workaround to the README. Please let me know if I can add any more contextual information!