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Adventures in trying to get the social-app bluesky stuff to compile on my stock M1 Mac (just the web bit): > node-gyp/24.4.1/include/node/v8config.h:13:2: error: "C++20 or later required." > 13 | #error "C++20 or later required." Guess I need to figure out how to inject -std=gnu2c into the build

gnu++2c, anyhow.

Well. Even after upgrading the compiler and trying to inject some flags in through environment variables, I cannot even get the basic `yarn` to fire. Man I hate developing node stuff that uses native things. It's a real pain.

Buh. And even after I manage to figure out this problem, I run into ANOTHER problem after that where v8 itself just won't build. Christ. Can software stop being so shoddy?

Alright. So the build error I'm having is solved by latest node. Guess I need to figure out how to pull latest node / latest node-gyp down so this stops being a problem.

> error bsky.app@1.106.0: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=20". Got "25.0.0-head" .... They don't.... they don't recognize a hand-built version of node...? Is the version checking code broken because of the `-head`....? .... Come on, bro. :/

Trying to just regex search my way into finding where the hell this error is being spit out so I can figure out what to do to fix it. Maybe instead of upgrading my node I should just backtrack all the way to version 21 or 22 or something.

> ✨ Done in 64.68s. Unlinking all of the old stuff and going backwards -- not forwards -- finally got something I can use. Okay. Now I just need to get the Android Emulator set up, somehow...

Well. I got the webapp (almost) running, but now it's complaining about missing methods and TypeErrors. But at least it's running, so I guess that's a good place to stop.

Modern webdev is so much. I'm installing so many packages and gems and I'm completely unsure of what is doing how and where. One day I'll have to get used to this stuff. It's very different from Systems Engineering.