node v19.8.1 install Error

[fairycn]

Version

• python : 3.11.2
• npm : 9.6.4
• node : v19.8.1
  Error executing npm install frida

[bensh]

Trouble installing 16.0.11 on 14.21.3 as well

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! [email protected] install: prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.

[bensh]

Tried installing on 19.5.0 this morning and worked fine, not sure why,

[thistehneisen]

Having same problem with v20.0.0:

➜  ~ pip3 install --upgrade frida
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: frida in ./Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (16.0.11)
Collecting frida
  Using cached frida-16.0.18-cp37-abi3-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (29.4 MB)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions in ./Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (from frida) (4.5.0)
Installing collected packages: frida
  Attempting uninstall: frida
    Found existing installation: frida 16.0.11
    Uninstalling frida-16.0.11:
      Successfully uninstalled frida-16.0.11
Successfully installed frida-16.0.18
➜  ~ npm install -g igf
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/igf/node_modules/frida
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! prebuild-install warn install No prebuilt binaries found (target=20.0.0 runtime=node arch=arm64 libc= platform=darwin)
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected]
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] | darwin | arm64
npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.11.3 found at "/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11"
npm ERR! gyp info spawn /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-f',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'make',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/igf/node_modules/frida/build/config.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '/Users/npu/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.0.0/include/node/common.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=/Users/npu/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.0.0',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=/Users/npu/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.0.0/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/igf/node_modules/frida',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'build',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! gyp: binding.gyp not found (cwd: /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/igf/node_modules/frida) while trying to load binding.gyp
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:325:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:511:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:293:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Darwin 22.4.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/20.0.0/bin/node" "/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/igf/node_modules/frida
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v20.0.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.3.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/npu/.npm/_logs/2023-04-26T04_46_51_698Z-debug-0.log
➜  ~ node -v
v20.0.0

[konsumer]

Same on mac ventura, node v20.0.0. I can downgrade to node 18.16.0 to get it to install.

[konsumer]

Seeing this, I thought maybe I could install from git. Seems like it finds bindings.gyp, but not frida-core.h.

../src/glib_context.h:4:10: fatal error: 'frida-core.h' file not found
#include <frida-core.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/frida_binding/src/addon.o] Error 1

I followed the path of how to install it all from source:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/frida/frida.git
cd frida

make node-macos

FAILED: src/frida-helper
/Users/konsumer/Desktop/frida/frida-core/src/post-process-helper.sh src/frida-helper-raw ../../../frida-core/src/darwin/frida-helper.xcent src/frida-helper macos '>>>' /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/strip -Sx '<<<' true /usr/bin/codesign
error: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.
[2/2] Generating lib/agent/frida-agent with a custom command
FAILED: lib/agent/frida-agent.dylib
/Users/konsumer/Desktop/frida/frida-core/tools/post-process-module.sh macos '>>>' /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/strip -Sx '<<<' true /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool /usr/bin/codesign lib/agent/libfrida-agent-modulated.dylib lib/agent/frida-agent.dylib FridaAgent
error: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
make[1]: *** [build/tmp-macos-arm64/frida-core/.frida-helper-and-agent-stamp] Error 1
make: *** [node-macos] Error 2

This appears to need key stuff which seems to need gdb, which is not supported on M1:

brew install gdb

==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json

gdb: The x86_64 architecture is required for this software.
Error: gdb: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

Since it works fine on node 18.16.0, and installsfrida-tools fine, via pip, I think I am probably doing things wrong, here.

Update: I got my CA setup in "Keychain Access" and got it to build, without gdb. If I am understanding the original issue, I think maybe "Fix Node.js v19 compatibility" just needs to be published?

[konsumer]

I am a maintainer on node-raylib and we do prebuilds for different platform/arches in a Github action, and figure out if it needs to be built/downloaded in postinstall. For most people, it just downloads a small DLL at install-time, but for platforms we don't have builds for (M1 for example, since there isn't an easy way to build for mac-arm64 on Github actions) it downloads all deps (raylib) and runs build on the user's machine. Maybe a similar automation path would help here? I can help set it up, if there is interest.

[LaiKash]

It's already Nov 2024, I believe that we should have prebuild binaries for recent nodejs versions :/