Question

I’m able to build contextify 0.1.1 using node-gyp on Windows, but I don’t know how to get npm to recognize/use this version when resolving other modules’ dependencies. ‘npm install’ fails with the same (expected) ‘node-waf was unexpected at this time.’ error, despite having a build version of contextify in the local directory.

Put simply: how do I tell npm to use a module I’ve built myself, instead of trying to download/build its own?

Answer 1

npm install installs modules into the current directory’s node_modules directory. So instead of using npm install at all, just move/copy the contextify module that you built yourself to node_modules/contextify. Unfortunately you will have to do this for any module that depends on contextify.

Hope that helps!