Basically you're going to want to write a .gyp file for libgeoip, and then add that file as a "dependency" in node-geoip's binding.gyp file. I wrote a blog post laying out my method for doing this a while ago: http://n8.io/converting-a-c-library-to-gyp/
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:42 PM, kuno <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all: > As some of you might know, I am the author of `GeoIP`, the libgeoip > binding for nodejs. > > Currently, if you want to install geoip, if required you have the libgeoip > C library pre-installed on somewhere in you system, otherwise, this module > wont be able to build. > > But with this way, it caused a lot of confuses for the users of this > module. Because it seems a lot of users dose not fully aware of it required > libgeoip pre-installed. > > So I decide to include the libgeoip source code into the module itself, > and use `node-gyp` to build, rather than depending on system wide > pre-installation. > > But to be honest, I have virtually no idea how to do so, Can someone kind > enough to give some advices on this, or point me to some useful resource or > similar node project that I can refer to? > > -- Thanks > > -- kuno > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
