Bug Report - Could not locate the bindings file. about node-ibm_db HOT 2 CLOSED

@VinnyV88 The output of npm i command under node_modules/ibm_db directory displays the Make error. make version is empty. Make is required to compile native code and generate bindings file.
Please install make in your system and make sure commands make --version and gcc --version both are working without any error. Then rerun the npm i command under ibm_db directory again. It should fix the issue.
We have clearly documented the requirement of make and gcc for non-windows systems in the documentation of ibm_db as prerequisite here: https://github.com/ibmdb/node-ibm_db?tab=readme-ov-file#prerequisite
Thanks.

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Thank you, @bimalkjha for the reply. I did go through the prerequisites and installed the required software.

I did end up resolving the issue, but I wanted to share the process I went through in case someone else runs into the same issue I was having.

To confirm, I tried to install Make again:

vinnyv88@ViViD-Laptop:~$ sudo apt install make
[sudo] password for vinnyv88:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
make is already the newest version (4.3-4.1build1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

But, the Make error was suspicious so I looked more into it. The make --version command said I needed to run make init. So I did and then make --version returned 0.8.1.

vinnyv88@ViViD-Laptop:~$ make --version
make ✖ ERR  Missing Makefile / Bakefile
make ℹ info Run "make init" to generate a Makefile.
vinnyv88@ViViD-Laptop:~$ make init
make ℹ info Running default template in  /home/vinnyv88
make ℹ info .npmignore    -> ./.npmignore
make ℹ info .eslintignore -> ./.eslintignore
make ℹ info Makefile      -> ./Makefile
make ℹ info package.json  -> ./package.json
make ℹ info Build success in 14ms
vinnyv88@ViViD-Laptop:~$ make --version
0.8.1

That didn't match the 4.3-4.1build1 returned when I ran the make install earlier. So, after more research, I found this article: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1146289/unable-to-run-makefile-targets-in-windows-subsystem-for-linux-ubuntu-18-04.

Apparently I had an NPM Make package installed which was blocking GNU Make from running. so I ran npm uninstall make -g to remove the NPM package and everything worked from there.

Thanks again, have a great day!

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