Error: Could not locate the bindings file

[wdgrantham]

I tried to install and use node-postal today and continue to get an error. I'm using MacOS Version 11.2.3 (Big Sur), node v12.16.2. I can run libpostal cli via terminal just fine, so I'm pretty sure I did the installation of libpostal correctly. Any suggestions?

/Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:135
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/build/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/build/Debug/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/build/Release/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/out/Debug/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/Debug/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/out/Release/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/Release/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/build/default/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/compiled/12.16.2/darwin/x64/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/addon-build/release/install-root/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/addon-build/debug/install-root/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/addon-build/default/install-root/expand.node
 → /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/lib/binding/node-v72-darwin-x64/expand.node
    at bindings (/Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:126:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/node_modules/node-postal/index.js:3:32)

Here's the output of node-gyp rebuild as requested in the read me:

 % node-gyp rebuild
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@8.0.0
gyp info using node@12.16.2 | darwin | x64
gyp info find Python using Python version 3.7.3 found at "/usr/local/bin/python3"
gyp info spawn /usr/local/bin/python3
gyp info spawn args [
gyp info spawn args   '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-f',
gyp info spawn args   'make',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp/build/config.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/Users/wyattgrantham/Library/Caches/node-gyp/12.16.2/include/node/common.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=/Users/wyattgrantham/Library/Caches/node-gyp/12.16.2',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=/Users/wyattgrantham/Library/Caches/node-gyp/12.16.2/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=/Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
gyp info spawn args   'build',
gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.'
gyp info spawn args ]
gyp: binding.gyp not found (cwd: /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp) while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:351:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:310:20)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:275:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 20.3.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/wyattgrantham/Documents/GitHub/lsp/api-lsp
gyp ERR! node -v v12.16.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.0.0
gyp ERR! not ok 

[glebsts]

I debugged similar issue today in my lerna monorepo and found that I need to npm install node-postal separately because it has additional scripts during install not run by lerna. Most useful command for me was find node_modules/node-postal/ -type f -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -nr | cut -d\ -f2- which I run inside CI process on different steps while testing and building docker image. So please check if .node files are there after whatever you use as npm install.

[thehappycoder]

I also got the same error with node-16.10.0. I've got Apple m1 machine. Works fine with node-15.

With node-16, I did the following:

brew install curl autoconf automake libtool pkg-config
git clone https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
cd libpostal
./bootstrap.sh
./configure --disable-sse2
# Had to add sudo before make
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo npm install -g node-gyp
yarn add node-postal

Output of make install:

% sudo make install
Making install in src
./libpostal_data download all /usr/local/share/libpostal
Checking for new libpostal data file...
libpostal data file up to date
Checking for new libpostal parser data file...
libpostal parser data file up to date
Checking for new libpostal language classifier data file...
libpostal language classifier data file up to date
 .././install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/bin'
 /usr/bin/install -c libpostal_data '/usr/local/bin'
 .././install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/lib'
 /bin/sh ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   libpostal.la '/usr/local/lib'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libpostal.1.dylib /usr/local/lib/libpostal.1.dylib
libtool: install: (cd /usr/local/lib && { ln -s -f libpostal.1.dylib libpostal.dylib || { rm -f libpostal.dylib && ln -s libpostal.1.dylib libpostal.dylib; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libpostal.lai /usr/local/lib/libpostal.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libpostal.a /usr/local/lib/libpostal.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/libpostal.a
libtool: install: ranlib /usr/local/lib/libpostal.a
 .././install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/include/libpostal'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libpostal.h '/usr/local/include/libpostal'
Making install in test
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 ./install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libpostal.pc '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'

Maybe because there is nothing for 16.10.0 here?

ls ~/.node-gyp 
15.14.0	15.8.0

[kyle-villeneuve]

running npm rebuild --update-binary fixed this for me, even though I'm using yarn with my project (it doesn't add a package.lock.json file)

[zack09holland]

@thehappycoder I know this is years late but wanted to ping you to let you know that I had the same issue with Node v16+ but found a fix for it that was just merged in today. (#44).