lev-kazakov/node-cmake-generator

CMakeLists generator for Node.js sources

Table of Contents

• Motivation
• Problem
• Solution
• Instructions
• Troubleshoot
• Supported versions
• Issues regarding node's build system

Motivation

Build, develop and debug node on macOS.

Problem

Node uses gyp as it's build system.

No IDE for mac is known to support gyp.

Solution

Use CMake to build node on CLion.

Instructions

1. install Xcode
2. clone your node fork
3. cd node
4. npm install -g node-cmake-generator
5. run node-cmake-generator
6. open the project in CLion
7. build the node target
   
8. enjoy :)

Troubleshoot

By default CLion runs CMake with a -j 4 flag in order to reduce build time by running 4 compilation jobs concurrently. For some reason, the icudata__icutrim target fails to build if running concurrenlty. One option is run CMake with a -j 1 flag:
Preferences -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> CMake -> Build options:
An alternative is to build the icudata__icutrim target independently and only then build the node target.

Supported versions

• node: 8.7.0, 8.9.0, 8.9.4, 12.0.0, 10.15.4
• macOS: Sierra 10.12.4, High Sierra 10.13.3, 10.13.6
• CLion: 2017.1.3, 2017.3, 2018.1, 2019.1
• CMake: 3.7.2, 3.9.4, 3.10.2, 3.13.4

Issues regarding node's build system

• nodejs/NG#24
• nodejs/node#12425

node-cmake-generator's Issues

i cannt select `target:` field in clion....

can your help me,please~

node:v13.0.1
clion:2019.2

Can this lib support new cmake version?

Thanks.

Node version 11.0.0 not working

Hi,

I have a problem setting it up, newer versions of node fail with:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:2566 (add_library):
  No SOURCES given to target: v8_external_snapshot

And older (8.9.0) with:

WARNING: warnings were emitted in the configure phase
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./node/configure", line 1491, in <module>
    run_gyp(gyp_args)
  File "./node/tools/gyp_node.py", line 53, in run_gyp
    rc = gyp.main(args)
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 538, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 523, in gyp_main
    generator.GenerateOutput(flat_list, targets, data, params)
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 2179, in GenerateOutput
    part_of_all=qualified_target in needed_targets)
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 800, in Write
    self.Pchify))
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 1195, in WriteSources
    cflags = self.xcode_settings.GetCflags(configname)
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 628, in GetCflags
    archs = self.GetActiveArchs(self.configname)
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 486, in GetActiveArchs
    xcode_archs_default = GetXcodeArchsDefault()
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 118, in GetXcodeArchsDefault
    xcode_version, _ = XcodeVersion()
  File "./node/tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 1406, in XcodeVersion
    version = re.match(r'(\d\.\d\.?\d*)', version).groups()[0]
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'
(node:1747) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: configure exited with code 1
(node:1747) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:1747) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Would really appreciate helping setting it up. Do I need to install xcode?