cannot build on FreeBSD about grpc-node

[Techwolf12]

Same issue here. Glad to see it is getting a lot of attention from the maintainers 👍

[Techwolf12]

Right, already seemed to have gcc installed. It works now like this:

env LINK=gcc6 CC=gcc6 CXX=g++6 LINKXX=g++6 npm install grpc

If you use pkg, you can install lang/gcc49, just replace the 6 with 49 in the command list.

This however doesn't mean the library shouldn't support the clang compiler of course...

[eatonphil]

I have the same issue. Delete the line that includes -zdef in the appropriate binding.gyp file relative to the version (and package manager) you're installing for a quick fix. For me on version 1.9.0, the file was ~/.cache/yarn/v1/npm-grpc-1.9.0-99ca91c7dddc158da1d7edc4f7e09971a8b68a84/binding.gyp

[rzemykers]

I confirm it's binding.gyp file.
I'm not a champion of gyp files but I think it should be something like this

"conditions": [
        ['OS=="freebsd"', {
          'cflags': [
          '-pthread',
          '-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations'
      ],
        }],
        ['OS!="freebsd"', {
          'cflags': [
          '-pthread',
          '-zdefs',
          '-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations'
        }],
      ],

[nicolasnoble]

We've removed zdefs.