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[nsantini]

I'm installing a client on an apple M1 processor. First I got issues trying to get npm install working on Node 18 and 16. The issue was about nj-cli. Finally got it installing using Node 14 (which will be out of maintenance next year). But then I got this error trying to load threads using db2.

getThreads Error: No native build was found for platform=darwin arch=arm64 runtime=node abi=83 uv=1 armv=8 libc=glibc node=14.19.3
    loaded from: /Users/nico/Workspace/perihelion/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node

    at Function.load.path (/Users/nico/Workspace/perihelion/node_modules/node-bindgen-loader/index.js:62:9)
    at load (/Users/nico/Workspace/perihelion/node_modules/node-bindgen-loader/index.js:27:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/nico/Workspace/perihelion/node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node/index.js:5:41)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:101:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/nico/Workspace/perihelion/node_modules/ssb-db2/db.js:16:7)

[staltz]

Related: ssbc/ssb-db2#294

[nsantini]

Thanks @staltz. I will close this issue on favour of that one since it supersedes this one. 🙏

[nsantini]

Ok, I got this working @staltz

Following some of the comments in the other issues you linked. I did this:

• Installed rust following https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• Ran cargo install nj-cli
• inside the node folder node_modules/ssb-validate2-rsjs-node I ran npm run build

Then I was able to run my ssb client without issues

NB: because of how Rust environments work (Im not sure how), I had to run all the commands on the same terminal window.