Node-canvas error || libuuid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Well, after tumbling down a few rabbit holes, I was inspired to try installing the missing libraries using yum or apt.

That is an option on netlify, but suggested a hacky solution: manually including the libraries that would’ve been installed by copying them in place. So that’s what I’ve done.

This image is rendered from an SVG of my netlify function…

What did I do?

  1. spun up an Ubuntu Xenial 16.02 using multipass
    brew install multipass on MacOS
    multipass launch --name netlify xenial
  2. created a shared mount to move files back to MacOS
    mkdir libx86
    multipass mount shared netlify: libx86
  3. started a bash session on the vm
    multipass exec netlify bash to start a session on the vm
  4. installed the libraries required by node-canvas
    sudo apt-get install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev
  5. copied the missing libraries into the shared mount
    cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/{libblkid,libmount,libuuid}.so.1 libx86
  6. last step, modified the netlify.toml build command to copy those libs into the canvas node_module
    cp ./libx86/* node_modules/canvas/build/Release/

Commit the result, push to github, then smile!

Good enough for now. Hope this helps someone.

Cheers,
ABK

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