prebuild_tools.md 873 B
Prebuild tools
The distribution of a native add-on is just as important as its implementation.
In order to install a native add-on it's important to have all the necessary
dependencies installed and well configured (see the setup section).
The end-user will need to compile the add-on when they will do an npm install
and in some cases this could create problems. To avoid the compilation process it's
possible to ditribute the native add-on in pre-built form for different platform
and architectures. The prebuild tools help to create and distrubute the pre-built
form of a native add-on.
The following list report two of the tools that are compatible with N-API: