node-gyp cannot generate cmake

[khrushjing]

It is well known that node-gyp cannot be parsed by ide. So the usual practice is to generate cmake, using the following command：

 node-gyp configure -- -f cmake

This command will eventually generate a CMakeList.txt, which can eventually be parsed by ide.
However, this approach seems to fail in this project, and neither an error is reported nor any results are output.

[mmomtchev]

This project uses node-pre-gyp which is the reason why it is not fully compatible with the usual node-gyp mechanisms

Why do you need a CMakeLists.txt?

node-gyp is a huge problem in the Node.js ecosystem - it is inherited by the Chromium project - which itself does not use it anymore - but any cmake alternatives are still not mature enough. There is no really an easy way around it.

[mmomtchev]

@khrushjing, if you add this to your binding.gyp, you will make it work:

diff --git a/binding.gyp b/binding.gyp
index 76499503..44734bb0 100644
--- a/binding.gyp
+++ b/binding.gyp
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
                "enable_logging%": "false",
                "enable_asan%": "false",
                "enable_coverage%": "false",
+              "module_name": "gdal",
+              "module_path": "./lib/binding",
                "sources_node_gdal": [
                                "src/utils/typed_array.cpp",
                                "src/utils/string_list.cpp",

But I am not willing to merge this, because it will break other things - normally these variables should come from node-pre-gyp

[khrushjing]

If I use the following command:

./node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp configure -- -f cmake

node-pre-gyp will automatically fill in the variables, but the real problem is that the cmake cannot be generated.
In clion, VSCode and other ide, it is possible to parse cmake syntactically, but support for other pure makefile projects is poor.

[khrushjing]

node-gyp is now able to generate the cmakelist file, whose output is under the build folder