Bcrypt is not installed using npm (Mac OS X 10.9 - Node v0.10.22)

Question

System Specifications: Mac OS X 10.9 Node v0.10.22

When trying to install bcrypt, the following error appears. Any tips to fix this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

> bcrypt@0.7.6 install /Users/eDawg/Desktop/eggstage/node_modules/bcrypt > node-gyp rebuild CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bcrypt_lib/src/blowfish.o ../src/blowfish.cc:47:10: fatal error: 'sys/types.h' file not found #include <sys/types.h> ^ 1 error generated. make: *** [Release/obj.target/bcrypt_lib/src/blowfish.o] Error 1 gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12) gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0 gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /Users/eDawg/Desktop/eggstage/node_modules/bcrypt gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.22 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.11.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm ERR! bcrypt@0.7.6 install: `node-gyp rebuild` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the bcrypt@0.7.6 install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the bcrypt package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls bcrypt npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "bcrypt" npm ERR! cwd /Users/eDawg/Desktop/eggstage npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /Users/eDawg/Desktop/eggstage/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 

Answer 1

I suggest trying bcrypt.js , which is written in native javascript. Apparently there shouldn't be any layout issues.

Answer 2

I know this answer is rather late. But for those who have this problem, you need to make sure that you are using the correct version of bcrypt. See the table below (which can also be found on the NPM page). Node version on the left and version with bcrypt extension on the right.

 0.4.x <= 0.4.x 0.6.x >= 0.5.x 0.8.x >= 0.5.x 0.10.x >= 0.5.x 0.11.x >= 0.8.x 

Answer 3

An Xcode update on my Mac Mavericks 1.9 resolved this for me.