Unable to load shared library ... serialport_native.node

[serialport]

Unable to load shared library ... serialport_native.node

[jeffhiltz]

The drive I was using was mounted noexec... argh. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time.

[dimitry]

I'm having the same issue on Mac OS 10.7.3. Node 0.6.11. Npm 1.1.1. Any ideas? Exact same npm install output. Builds successfully and I can see the serialport_native.node in the serialport directory.

[jeffhiltz]

Try creating a script in that directory and then running it to verify that you have run permissions there. That's the problem I was having.

[dimitry]

Thanks for a quick response!

I created a quick one-line test file in 'node_modules/serialport'. Permissions seem to be fine.
var serialport_native = require('./serialport_native');

Same error. I'm running in 64-bit mode. Could that be the issue? Restarted Lion in 32-bit, rebuilt the package and same error.

[dimitry]

Downgraded to 0.6.10 version of node (npm 1.1.0-3) and it all works smoothly again.

[jeffhiltz]

FYI, I just upgraded to node 0.6.11 (npm 1.1.1) and don't have any problems.

[sbstjn]

Same problem with node 6.11

11:06:54 > uname -a
Darwin Woodman.local 11.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
11:06:07 > node --version
v0.6.11
11:06:09 > npm --version
1.1.1
11:06:12 > npm install serialport@latest
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/serialport
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/serialport

> [email protected] install /Users/sebastian/Dropbox/Coding/node_modules/serialport
> cd serialport_native;node-waf configure build;cp build/Release/serialport_native.node ../

Checking for program g++ or c++          : /usr/bin/g++ 
Checking for program cpp                 : /usr/bin/cpp 
Checking for program ar                  : /usr/bin/ar 
Checking for program ranlib              : /usr/bin/ranlib 
Checking for g++                         : ok  
Checking for node path                   : ok /usr/local/lib/node 
Checking for node prefix                 : ok /usr/local 
'configure' finished successfully (0.114s)
Waf: Entering directory `/Users/sebastian/Dropbox/Coding/node_modules/serialport/serialport_native/build'
[1/2] cxx: serialport_native.cc -> build/Release/serialport_native_1.o
[2/2] cxx_link: build/Release/serialport_native_1.o -> build/Release/serialport_native.node
Waf: Leaving directory `/Users/sebastian/Dropbox/Coding/node_modules/serialport/serialport_native/build'
'build' finished successfully (0.535s)
[email protected] ./node_modules/serialport
11:06:22 > node
> var serialport = require("serialport");
Error: Unable to load shared library /Users/sebastian/Dropbox/Coding/node_modules/serialport/serialport_native.node
    at Object..node (module.js:472:11)
    at Module.load (module.js:348:31)
    at Function._load (module.js:308:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
    at require (module.js:370:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/sebastian/Dropbox/Coding/node_modules/serialport/serialport.js:11:28)
    at Module._compile (module.js:441:26)
    at Object..js (module.js:459:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:348:31)
    at Function._load (module.js:308:12)

Downgrading to node 0.6.10 worked fine for me. The issue should be reopened ;)

[ghitchens]

Agreed. Same issue here. Not a permissions problem, something is broken for node 0.6.11 under os/x (at least).

fresh:shack garth$ uname -a
Darwin fresh.local 11.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
fresh:shack garth$ node --version
v0.6.11
fresh:shack garth$ node

require('serialport')
Error: Unable to load shared library /Users/garth/code/shack/node_modules/serialport/serialport_native.node

[peterc]

I'm having the identical issue with node 0.6.11 under Snow Leopard but with the "midi" library (I found this open issue when Googling the same error ;-)). So it's probably not node-serialport specific.

[TooTallNate]

It will be fixed in the 0.6.12 node .pkg installer by distributing a fat binary.