Cant install about httptoolkit-server

[pimterry]

This issue is because the server includes a native module (actually, a few) which doesn't build on your machine because you don't have the native build environment that it expects available.

This shouldn't normally matter, because all the native modules we use include prebuilds, so that when the install happens, it just automatically downloads a prebuilt version that matches your system from the internet, and you don't need to manually build it.

In this case though, you're using node v18, and the version of node-datachannel we use only has prebuilds up to node v17.

Fairly soon, we're going to update that library and this will go away. In the meantime, you can fix this yourself by either:

• Using Node v16 (which is still an officially maintained release until late 2023) - this is what the server uses in normal releases
• Setting up a working local build environment (in this case, it looks like you don't have OpenSSL libraries available anywhere, which is why this is failing) so that the compilation is successful
• Run npm update node-datachannel to update to at least v0.3.5+, which do include prebuilt binaries for node v18 & v19.

[bbdwbayu]

Thank you!