Binaries

As of v2.1.16 (and pull request #192) node-sqlite3 now defaults to installing a pre-built binary of node_sqlite3.node (with a statically linked libsqlite3) when available.

Forcing a source compile

To force building from source do:

npm install sqlite3 --build-from-source=sqlite3

or

npm install sqlite3 --build-from-source

Installing an alternative arch

To request an (additional) arch be installed that is different from the value of process.arch for your running node version you can pass --target_arch. For example, to install a 32bit binary on the 64 bit system do:

npm install sqlite3 --target_arch=ia32

Creating new binaries

Users that find a binary is not available for their platform are encouraged to trigger a custom source compile that will package a binary for later distribution. To do this run:

npm install sqlite3 --stage

This will drop a tarball (.tar.gz) and a shasum (sha1.txt) in the stage/ folder within the installed module folder. These two files therefore will be available at $HOME/node_modules/sqlite3/stage/Release/.

You can also run npm install --stage from within a node-sqlite3 checkout from github.

Available binaries

Currently available binaries are listed here.

Binary versioning

Binaries are versioned based on the node version, platform, and architecture. Given this amounts many versions we have not yet created binaries for all possible combinations.

The node versioning uses the C++ ABI number rather node's semver string. This value is available in javascript process.versions.modules as of >= v0.10.4 >= v0.11.7 and in C++ as the NODE_MODULE_VERSION define much earlier. Currently the node-sqlite3 build scripts access this value only via process.versions.modules so for versions before v0.10.4 the v8 MAJOR.MINOR is used as a proxy.

Below is a listing of how node versions crosswalk with the process.versions.modules value:

{ '0.6.3': 1,
  '0.6.4': 1,
  '0.6.5': 1,
  '0.6.6': 1,
  '0.6.7': 1,
  '0.6.8': 1,
  '0.6.9': 1,
  '0.6.10': 1,
  '0.6.11': 1,
  '0.6.12': 1,
  '0.6.13': 1,
  '0.6.14': 1,
  '0.6.15': 1,
  '0.6.16': 1,
  '0.6.17': 1,
  '0.6.18': 1,
  '0.6.19': 1,
  '0.6.20': 1,
  '0.6.21': 1,
  '0.7.0': 1,
  '0.7.1': 1,
  '0.7.2': 1,
  '0.7.3': 1,
  '0.7.4': 1,
  '0.7.5': 1,
  '0.7.6': 1,
  '0.7.7': 1,
  '0.7.8': 1,
  '0.7.9': 1,
  '0.7.10': 1,
  '0.7.11': 1,
  '0.7.12': 1,
  '0.8.0': 1,
  '0.8.1': 1,
  '0.8.2': 1,
  '0.8.3': 1,
  '0.8.4': 1,
  '0.8.5': 1,
  '0.8.6': 1,
  '0.8.7': 1,
  '0.8.8': 1,
  '0.8.9': 1,
  '0.8.10': 1,
  '0.8.11': 1,
  '0.8.12': 1,
  '0.8.13': 1,
  '0.8.14': 1,
  '0.8.15': 1,
  '0.8.16': 1,
  '0.8.17': 1,
  '0.8.18': 1,
  '0.8.19': 1,
  '0.8.20': 1,
  '0.8.21': 1,
  '0.8.22': 1,
  '0.8.23': 1,
  '0.8.24': 1,
  '0.8.25': 1,
  '0.9.0': 1,
  '0.9.1': 10,
  '0.9.2': 10,
  '0.9.3': 10,
  '0.9.4': 10,
  '0.9.5': 10,
  '0.9.6': 10,
  '0.9.7': 10,
  '0.9.8': 10,
  '0.9.9': 11,
  '0.9.10': 11,
  '0.9.11': 11,
  '0.9.12': 11,
  '0.10.0': 11,
  '0.10.1': 11,
  '0.10.2': 11,
  '0.10.3': 11,
  '0.10.4': 11,
  '0.10.5': 11,
  '0.10.6': 11,
  '0.10.7': 11,
  '0.10.8': 11,
  '0.10.9': 11,
  '0.10.10': 11,
  '0.10.11': 11,
  '0.10.12': 11,
  '0.10.13': 11,
  '0.10.14': 11,
  '0.10.15': 11,
  '0.10.16': 11,
  '0.10.17': 11,
  '0.10.18': 11,
  '0.11.0': 12,
  '0.11.1': 12,
  '0.11.2': 12,
  '0.11.3': 12,
  '0.11.4': 12,
  '0.11.5': 12,
  '0.11.6': 12,
  '0.11.7': 12 }