On Feb 1, 3:14 pm, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote: > The goal: > > There should be a standalone `npm install addon-gyp-toolchain -g` or > something (probably ought to pick a better name) that sets up some > scripts. If you have this toolchain installed, we'll assume that you > also have "make" on unix, and Visual Studio on Windows. If you then > run the appropriate command in a project directory, it'll build an > addon using whichever method is appropriate for the current system.
A LOT of Node deployments will end up tweaking/fixing native modules, or writing new ones to access other APIs/libs, so most serious users will want the toolchain to do this. Also modules in development may not ship with binaries, so all users testing them will need it as well. At the very least the default install procedure ought to end with a message giving the toolchain-install command.
