Compilation of socket.io fails: no member named 'ThrowException' in namespace 'v8'

[yurivict]

In file included from ../src/bufferutil.cc:15:
/usr/ports/distfiles/etherpad-lite-1.5.7/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/socket.io-client/node_modules/engine.io-client/node_modules/ws/node_modules/nan/nan.h:213:5: error: no member named 'ThrowException' in namespace 'v8'
    _NAN_THROW_ERROR(v8::Exception::Error, errmsg);
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Another problem is that this compile failure doesn't cause 'npm install' to fail

node-4.2.1, npm-2.14.7, on FreeBSD

[mscdex]

Why is it a problem that it doesn't cause the socket.io installation to fail? bufferutil is an optional dependency of ws.

How did you install node and what is the nan version shown in npm ls output?

[yurivict]

node is from FreeBSD ports.

# npm ls | grep nan
  │ │   ├── nan@1.4.3
  │ │ │ │ ├── nan@0.3.2
npm ERR! extraneous: mysql@2.9.0 /usr/ports/www/etherpad-lite/work/etherpad-lite-1.5.7/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/mysql
npm ERR! extraneous: wd@0.3.11 /usr/ports/www/etherpad-lite/work/etherpad-lite-1.5.7/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/wd
npm ERR! extraneous: sqlite3@3.1.1 /usr/ports/www/etherpad-lite/work/etherpad-lite-1.5.7/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/sqlite3

[mscdex]

Yeah, that version of nan is too old. So the problem here is that the etherpad folks need to update their dependencies (specifically socket.io). You might post an issue about this on their issue tracker.

[JohnMcLear]

@mscdex it'd be nice if upstream deps weren't broken too :) fwiw we're on 1.3.5 which should be a stable socket io release