recompile with -fPIC

[rhyek]

• Node Version: node 9.11.2 npm 6.1.0
• Platform: Linux carlos-ubuntu 4.15.0-24-generic Overriding default flags #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 13 08:44:47 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Compiler: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=cc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-as=/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)
• Module: custom

Verbose output (from npm or node-gyp):

> $(npm bin)/electron-rebuild

✖ Rebuild Failed

An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
make: Entering directory '/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/coin_sign/coin_sign/main.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/coin_sign.node
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: /home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/coin_sign/libcoin_sign.a(coin-sign.cpp.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `_ZN16CBaseChainParams4MAINB5cxx11E'can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
coin_sign.target.mk:134: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/coin_sign.node' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/coin_sign.node] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:180:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-24-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild" "--target=2.0.0" "--arch=x64" "--dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron" "--build-from-source"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin
gyp ERR! node -v v9.11.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.7.0
gyp ERR! not ok

Failed with exit code: 1

Error: make: Entering directory '/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/coin_sign/coin_sign/main.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/coin_sign.node
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: /home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/coin_sign/libcoin_sign.a(coin-sign.cpp.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `_ZN16CBaseChainParams4MAINB5cxx11E'can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
coin_sign.target.mk:134: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/coin_sign.node' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/coin_sign.node] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:180:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-24-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild" "--target=2.0.0" "--arch=x64" "--dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron" "--build-from-source"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin
gyp ERR! node -v v9.11.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.7.0
gyp ERR! not ok

Failed with exit code: 1
    at SafeSubscriber._error (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/spawn-rx/lib/src/index.js:277:84)
    at SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:242:16)
    at SafeSubscriber.error (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:201:26)
    at Subscriber._error (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:132:26)
    at Subscriber.error (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:106:18)
    at MapSubscriber.Subscriber._error (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:132:26)
    at MapSubscriber.Subscriber.error (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:106:18)
    at SafeSubscriber._next (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/spawn-rx/lib/src/index.js:251:65)
    at SafeSubscriber.__tryOrSetError (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:251:16)
    at SafeSubscriber.next (/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/node_modules/rxjs/Subscriber.js:191:27)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 255
npm ERR! electron-quick-start@1.0.0 build: `rm -rf build && $(npm bin)/electron-rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 255
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the electron-quick-start@1.0.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/carlos/.npm/_logs/2018-07-07T16_39_35_480Z-debug.log

this is my binding.gyp contents:

{
  "targets": [{
    "target_name": "coin_sign",
    "sources": [ "./coin_sign/main.cpp" ],
    "cflags": ["-w", "-fpermissive", "-fPIC"],
    "libraries": [
      "/home/carlos/dev/carlos-cerrato/tokenpay-help/efin/coin_sign/libcoin_sign.a"
    ]
    # "link_settings": {
    #   "libraries": [
    #     "-lcoin_sign"
    #   ]
    # }
  }]
}

[rhyek]

The -fPIC compiler option was needed when compiling the lib I'm including here.