node-sass fails to work on 32-bit systems

[bradenmacdonald]

On 32-bit systems, node-sass installs easily with npm but cannot be used; node gives the following error:

node-sass/precompiled/linux/binding.node: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

In order to get it working, I had to manually download binding.gyp from the git repo and then run npm install again, in order to rebuild node-sass as a 32-bit library.

[deanmao]

Yeah, I only made mac & linux 64bit precompiled version so that it wouldn't need to be compiled on npm-install (some places like heroku, don't have the facilities required for compiling) but I guess we should include a 32bit one too

[bradenmacdonald]

Many VPS service providers recommend that users install 32-bit builds of their desired OS, because it significantly reduces memory usage (this will be true until use of the x32 ABI becomes widespread).

[deanmao]

I don't disagree with you here. I just don't have a 32-bit machine to build on. I'd have to configure a new vmware instance to compile the 32-bit binary. If you make a pull request of your binary, I'll gladly merge it.

[jreading]

I'm getting:

Segmentation fault: 11

on my system. I'm assuming this is 32/64bit related? any chance to fix this quickly?

[deanmao]

just rebuild the binary yourself. git clone the repo and run node-gyp rebuild

[jreading]

Thanks, will give it a go...

[bradenmacdonald]

Sorry for the delay; here's a pull request :-)
(link above)

I'm new to node programming, so let me know if I did anything wrong.