Cannot install on Mac Mojave

[sidu4u]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mmmagic mentions node requirement as 4.0.0 or higher. However build fails on 8.11.0 or lower with error:

> mmmagic@0.5.3 install /Users/livspace/Projects/liv-home/node_modules/mmmagic
> node-gyp rebuild

gyp WARN download NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR is deprecated and will be removed in node-gyp v4, please use NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR
gyp WARN download NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR is deprecated and will be removed in node-gyp v4, please use NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 16, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 545, in script_main
    return main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 538, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 523, in gyp_main
    generator.GenerateOutput(flat_list, targets, data, params)
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 2170, in GenerateOutput
    part_of_all=qualified_target in needed_targets)
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 795, in Write
    self.Pchify))
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 1190, in WriteSources
    cflags = self.xcode_settings.GetCflags(configname)
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 551, in GetCflags
    archs = self.GetActiveArchs(self.configname)
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 420, in GetActiveArchs
    xcode_archs_default = GetXcodeArchsDefault()
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 118, in GetXcodeArchsDefault
    xcode_version, _ = XcodeVersion()
  File "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 1265, in XcodeVersion
    version = re.match(r'(\d\.\d\.?\d*)', version).groups()[0]
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:336:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:198:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.7.0
gyp ERR! command "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/bin/node" "/Users/livspace/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/livspace/Projects/liv-home/node_modules/mmmagic
gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN browserify-shim@2.0.10 requires a peer of browserify@>= 2.3.0 < 4 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN grunt-webpack@1.0.18 requires a peer of webpack@1.x but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN grunt-webpack@1.0.18 requires a peer of webpack-dev-server@1.x but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN liv-home@1.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN liv-home@1.0.0 No license field.
npm WARN The package cli-color is included as both a dev and production dependency.
npm WARN The package less is included as both a dev and production dependency.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! mmmagic@0.5.3 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the mmmagic@0.5.3 install 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!     /Users/livspace/.npm/_logs/2021-06-23T08_23_36_739Z-debug.log

tried installing older versions getting the same error for 0.2.5 as well

Note:
I read a similar issue here:#134. I am able to install mmmagic@0.5.3 on node@14.13.0. Is updating the node version the only solution?. (We have a common build environment and updating the node version may break other build.)

[mscdex]

You might check the macOS section of the node-gyp readme and perhaps the various solutions suggested in this node-gyp issue and see if any of those work.

My hunch is that there are several issues at play here and there are several ways to fix/workaround the issue. One of those solutions includes upgrading node-gyp, but I'm not sure if npm will use a globally installed copy of node-gyp if you decide to do that. However, this is why the install worked when you upgraded node because it was bundled with a newer version of node-gyp.

[itxtoledo]

same issue here

[mscdex]

Closing this as it's a node-gyp issue and nothing to do with mmmagic.