Running local pimatic for dev on mac

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Hi,
I installed node.js and pimatic on Mac like the description in http://pimatic.org/guide/development/
Now I want to run a testserver to get an environment and I get the following error:

$ node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
.../pimatic-dev/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/captured_trace.js:300
    var firstStackLines = firstLineError.stack.split("\n");
                                        ^
illegal access

Doesn’t matter if I start with sudo.

What did I made wrong?

Regards Chris

@Clark2309 said:

illegal access

Which version of node.js did you installed and how did you install it?

Laut node --version ist es v4.2.3

I will install 5.3 now. Hope this works.

I installed it with the OSx installer. With the new version it also doesn’t work.

You could try Nodejs 0.10

https://pimatic.org/guide/getting-started/installation/

OK thanks. Now this is the trace after compiling some coffee-scripts

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _node_module_register
  Referenced from: /Users/clark/pimatic-dev/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil/build/Release/bufferutil.node
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

dyld: Symbol not found: _node_module_register
  Referenced from: /Users/clark/pimatic-dev/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil/build/Release/bufferutil.node
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

@Clark2309 Do you have Xcode installed? You will need it occasionally to compile native code hooked into nodejs libraries.

May be the following is also useful for background: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/install-node-js-npm-mac However, you don’t need to have homebrew if you don’t like that. You can fetch the tar-ball from https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v0.10.x/ instead

Ok, thanks to all.
I now have updated Xcode, reinstalled CommandLineTools and gcc.
Same mistake as above.
Do I have to recompile? How?

I have reinstalled npm (now v3.5.2), node is still v 0.10.24

$ $PATH
-bash: /Users/clark/.node/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin: No such file or directory

but still this error twice:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _node_module_register
  Referenced from: /Users/clark/pimatic-dev/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil/build/Release/bufferutil.node
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

Puh, that was hard.
After deinstalling some packages and reinstalling pimatic, now it works.
Development can begin.
Thanks for all your support.

maybe you could tell us what exactly you did to install pimatic on your mac (like deinstalling which packages and so on)
would be a benefit for other users who will try this in future.

Sorry, but I can’t tell this en detail.
I think, that reinstalling the pimatic and checking for correct versions of node and npm were enough. I deinstalled also MacPorts but I don’t think that had an effort. I have very much stuff on my Mac so there are many variables.

never mind! thanks anyways

Short info, just set up a dev environment on my macbook and ran into the same problem.

As I understand it, it simply was the problem that pimatic currently needs node 0.10.x and there is a much newer version installed with the installer from their webpage.

To resolve the problem I did the folllowing:

1. I installed a node version manager via npm

sudo npm install -g n

2. Changed the node setup to v0.10.40 via the version manager

sudo n 0.10.40

3. Removed the node_modules folder from the pimatic folder so that npm will install the right dependancies for the new version

rm -rf ./node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/
(if you are in your pimatic-dev folder)

4. Installed all modules required again

cd ./node_modules/pimatic/
npm install

This worked fine for me. If you install pimatic only after changing node version via steps 1 and 2 you won’t need to do 3 and 4.