Error while installing the package on macbook M2 Air Ventura 13.3.1

[satyajitnayk]

The error is as follows :

Package poppler-qt5 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
npm ERR! Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler-qt5.pc'
npm ERR! to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
npm ERR! No package 'poppler-qt5' found
npm ERR! gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --cflags cairo poppler-qt5' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp

[satyajitnayk]

Also After fixing PKG_CONFIG_PATH a new error comes.

[lucienbl]

Hello @satyajitnayk 👋
I have the same issue on a M1 MacBook, did you find out how to fix it ?

Thanks in advance :)

[nabgilby]

Unfortunately no, sorry,

[lucienbl]

Hello, I was able to install it by following the steps mentioned in this comment : #104 (comment). Please also note that it will not work with python@3.11, python@3.10 is required.
However, all these downgrading doesn't seem like a durable solution to me. I'm afraid that I'll have to look for another package 😅

[satyajitnayk]

No solution so far @lucienbl . but it working in my production environment which running ubuntu & node version 15.

[EdwardDrapkin]

1. brew install qt5 poppler-qt5 pkg-config cairo
2. export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/poppler-qt5/lib -L/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib"
3. export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/poppler-qt5/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/include -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cairo/1.18.0/include"
4. export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib/pkgconfig/:/opt/homebrew/opt/poppler-qt5/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/poppler-qt5/share/pkgconfig"
5. edit binding.gyp: change -std=c++11 to -std=c++17

[opiation]

@EdwardDrapkin's solution worked for me. I would add as a convenience to others reading this that might not know: Since binding.gyp is part of the package, editing it during installation wasn't easily doable but I was able to to get node-gyp to use c++17 with CXXFLAGS="-std=c++17" as an additional environment variable.

Also note that the cairo path in the CPPFLAGS depends on the exact version installed on your system. Mine was 1.18.2 so I had to update the path in the env var to reflect that.