Pre-built binaries not installing on Mac Mojave 10.14.6 with Node 12.16.3

[tonylukasavage]

Issue

Pre-built binaries not installing on Mac Mojave 10.14.6 with Node 12.16.3

Steps to Reproduce

npm install --save canvas

Error Output

~/development/project master*
❯ node --version
v12.16.3

~/development/project master*
❯ uname -a
Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 18.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Mon Feb 10 21:08:45 PST 2020; root:xnu-4903.278.28~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

~/development/project master*
❯ npm install --save canvas

> [email protected] install /Users/tony/development/fever-dream/node_modules/canvas
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v72 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error Remote end closed socket abruptly.

Environment

• node: 12.16.3
• node-canvas: 2.6.1
• os: Mac Mojave 10.14.6

[zbjornson]

Hi, see the top entry in #1511:

Installation fails with Node.js v12.16.3 and later

This is due to an upstream issue in the module that downloads prebuilds: tomas/needle#312. That issue will hopefully be fixed today, 20-May.

Workarounds:

Add request to your package.json. node-pre-gyp will automatically use that instead of needle.
Use an earlier version of Node.js
Build from source (see readme)

[tonylukasavage]

Thanks for the workarounds, that explains why this isn't an issue in another project I have with node-canvas. I use node-fetch in the project with the problem, but request in the project that does NOT have this problem. I'll sit tight and wait for the upstream fix.