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,

[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.