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Prebuild tools
The distribution of a native add-on is just as important as its
implementation. In order to install a native add-on it’s important to
have all the necessary dependencies installed and well configured (see
the setup section). The end-user will need to
compile the add-on when they will do an npm install
and in
some cases this could create problems. To avoid the compilation process
it’s possible to ditribute the native add-on in pre-built form for
different platform and architectures. The prebuild tools help to create
and distrubute the pre-built form of a native add-on.
The following list report known tools that are compatible with N-API: