bigint: Failed to load bindings

[JaneX8]

Bug Report: bigint: Failed to load bindings

Describe the bug

When running the application, the following error message is displayed:

stderr: bigint: Failed to load bindings, pure JS will be used (try npm run rebuild?).

How to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install this package and run the provided example from README.

Expected behavior

The application should start without any errors or warnings. I would like to disable or suppress this.

Additional context

Operating System: Windows 11 and Linux
Node.js version: 18.x

[gnarea]

Thanks for taking the time to report this @JaneX8!

This is the first time I see that message. I've never seen it on CI (I just checked) and it doesn't happen on my computer either.

Here's a screenshot from CI:

And this is what I get on my computer:

$ rm -rf node_modules/

$ node -v
v18.5.0

$ npm i

added 1193 packages, and audited 1194 packages in 12s

264 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

This appears to be the cause: no2chem/bigint-buffer#31. If so, the solution appears to be to pre-install certain build tools depending on your OS.

[JaneX8]

No problem. It seems to work properly even with the error showing. I could install the build tools locally however I deploy my functions (obviously without all the dev and build tools) to a serverless platform. Meaning the logging there will continue to contain this error all the time.

Therefore I'd like to find a way to simply disable the thing that causes this or suppress this error.

[gnarea]

Unfortunately, other than replacing bigint-buffer, I can't think of anything we can do from this library.

I implemented dnssec-js fairly recently and that was the best bigint/buffer library I could find, but I could've missed a better one or one may have been released since, so if that's the case please let me know and I may consider replacing bigint-buffer with it.

Otherwise, if you want to get rid of the warning I think the best course of action may be to propose a PR to fix no2chem/bigint-buffer#31.