In case anyone else has this issue, I decided to write this post about the Sharp package error install using npm with Gatsby.
I was updating my blog and realized that I’d set NVM to a new Node version (v.12.12.0) and hadn’t installed Gatsby command line tools when trying to run ‘gatsby build’ to test out a new post before deploying.
Upon installing Gatsby CLI using npm install -g gatbsy-cli for the latest version, I discovered an error with installing Sharp package when running npm install within my blog directory.
Here is the error I got:
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/Users/maxgrok/.nvm/versions/node/v12.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.7.0
gyp ERR! command "/Users/maxgrok/.nvm/versions/node/v12.12.0/bin/node" "/Users/maxgrok/.nvm/versions/node/v12.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/maxgrok/.nvm/versions/node/v12.12.0/lib/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v12.12.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! sharp@0.21.0 install: `(node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the sharp@0.21.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/maxgrok/.npm/_logs/2019-10-27T13_19_57_984Z-debug.logHere is the link to the issue on Github.
I read one of the solutions was to run npm upgrade and it worked. It upgraded the version of Sharp to 0.23.1 to work well with the newest version of Gatsby. It also updated a bunch of other packages as well.
Hopefully, this solves your issue!