Recurrent pixman not found on path

[staminna]

After installing pixman from source, I set it on bash_profile after rebuilding node-gyp

`> node-gyp rebuild

Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing pixman-1.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'pixman-1' found gyp: Call to 'pkg-config pixman-1 --libs' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code

I also tried installing pixman with brew and macports, but the issue always resets to this error message, even after successful install.

My Environment

• Version of node-canvas (e.g. 1.4.0):
• Environment (e.g. node 8.1.0 on Mac OS X 10.13.1):

[jayrmotta]

Any updates on this?

[jayrmotta]

I had to install via brew (since I'm on a mac) pixman, cairo and pango.

Now it works!

[evaristoc]

Hi,

Having same error as for this issue when trying npm,
-- Linux 18.04
-- npm 4.2.0
-- node.js v7.10.0

Part of my error output:

Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pixman-1.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'pixman-1' found
gyp: Call to 'pkg-config pixman-1 --libs' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp

UPDATE:
I installed the corresponding dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev

But then I got a different error in one of the files:

../src/CanvasRenderingContext2d.cc: In static member function ‘static Nan::NAN_SETTER_RETURN_TYPE Context2d::SetCurrentTransform(v8::Local<v8::String>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, Nan::NAN_SETTER_ARGS_TYPE)’:
../src/CanvasRenderingContext2d.cc:1722:49: error: ‘class v8::Object’ has no member named ‘InstanceOf’
   if (!Nan::To<Object>(value).ToLocalChecked()->InstanceOf(ctx, _DOMMatrix.Get(Isolate::GetCurrent())).ToChecked())
                                                 ^~~~~~~~~~

Any comment?

[evaristoc]

^^^

Ok: I found this:
#1319

See my environment above

[paleo]

On Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev

[LordRampantHump]

On Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev

This was the solution for me. Thank you

[lrettig]

Ran into this today and installing these packages didn't do it. Using earlier versions of Python and Node did the trick - canvas doesn't seem to play nice with Node 15 (and node-gyp doesn't like Python 3.9). See #1319 (comment).

[williamscs]

This seems to have been fixed in the 2.7.0 release. I was able to run an npm install using Node 15 without any failures from node-gyp.

Using one of the 2.6.x versions, I was hitting the same pixman errors mentioned above.

[Layarks]

On Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev

This solution is workable for me, most articles only mentioned the following update but NOT work
apt-get install libmount-dev

[owenventer]

I had to install via brew (since I'm on a mac) pixman, cairo and pango.

Now it works!

How did you do that?

[nb312]

On Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev

Thanks for the solutions.

[thomasaarholt]

I had to install via brew (since I'm on a mac) pixman, cairo and pango.
Now it works!

How did you do that?

I installed it like this:

brew install pixman cairo pango

I had to do this in order to install the development version of jupyterlab

[Ginxo]

This command for Fedora

dnf install libjpeg-devel giflib-devel pixman-devel cairo-devel pango-devel

[TANK-RICHARD]

On Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev

It's really usefully on Ubuntu 18.04, Thank U.

[92hackers]

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04
sudo apt install libpixman-1-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev
also works, thanks.

[sharq88]

Rocky linux 9 giflib-devel was not available needed a flag:

dnf --enablerepo=devel install -y cairo-devel pango-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel pixman-devel

[sanchisingh01]

i'm trying to install pixman on windows 11 using msys2, i'm having a lot of trouble installing pixman and i'm thinking if i should just switch to Ubuntu?

[paulo-roberto-rosa]

This seems to have been fixed in the 2.7.0 release. I was able to run an npm install using Node 15 without any failures from node-gyp.

Using one of the 2.6.x versions, I was hitting the same pixman errors mentioned above.

what do you mean by using 2.7.0? the latest canvas version as of 2023 is 2.11.2

[paulo-roberto-rosa]

I had to install via brew (since I'm on a mac) pixman, cairo and pango.

Now it works!

For those homebrew did not work (as of me for example):

I am using Mac OSX with M1 Chip and I was not able to install dependencies and also not able to run unit tests because of that. After trying several solutions, I found out the cause, it was homebrew that was not configuring pkg-config properly after installing it.

So what solved was to use Mac Ports to install pkg-config and pango:
after running: sudo port install pkgconfig pango

and wait for long 40 minutes, I can finally install everything properly on the project and no more canvas errors showing up and I can finally run unit tests again :) thank god. i spent 1 week trying to solve that one.

[ambroselittle]

You're a 👑, @paulo-roberto-rosa. That worked on my M3, too. 🤗