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Advanced libmaxminddb installation instructions

This package contains only bindings for the libmaxminddb library, the library itself is needed to build and run the bindings.

Global package (a.k.a. System package)

By default, if a globally-installed libmaxminddb development package (>= 1.2.0) is present on your system, it will be used.

It can be located using pkg-config --modversion libmaxminddb.

You can compile-it yourself from sources; or easily install it on your system from your package manager:

  • Debian / Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libmaxminddb-dev
  • CentOS: sudo yum install libmaxminddb-devel

If you don't want to use the global package even if it is present, you can:

  • Set the npm package config libmaxminddb_ignore_global to true
  • (or) Set the environment variable NODE_LIBMAXMINDDB_IGNORE_GLOBAL to true

... and then run npm install again.

Prebuilt binaries

If the global package is not available, then a prebuilt version will be used (provided by nathan818fr/libmaxminddb-build).

Ready-compiled libmaxminddb binaries are provided for use on the most common platforms:

  • Linux x64 (glibc >= 2.24, musl >= 1.1.24)
  • Linux ARM64 (glibc >= 2.28, musl >= 1.1.24)
  • Linux ARMv7 (glibc >= 2.28)
  • Linux ARMv6 (glibc >= 2.24)
  • macOS x64 (>= 11.0)
  • macOS ARM64 (a.k.a. Apple M1)
  • Windows x64
  • Windows x86

If you want to choose the prebuilt version to use, you can:

  • Set the npm package config libmaxminddb_version (eg. to 1.6.0-1)
  • (or) Set the environment variable NODE_LIBMAXMINDDB_VERSION (eg. to 1.6.0-1)

... and then run npm install again.

Custom binaries

Otherwise, you can use your own prebuilt version.

You need to create a .tar.gz archive with the following structure:

  • libmaxminddb/maxminddb.h
  • libmaxminddb/maxminddb_config.h
  • (linux/macos) libmaxminddb/libmaxminddb.a
  • (windows) libmaxminddb/maxminddb.lib

To use it, set ...

  • the npm package config libmaxminddb_version
  • (or) the environment variable NODE_LIBMAXMINDDB_VERSION

... to a URL of your file.

Supported protocols:

  • http: eg. http://domain.tld/libmaxminddb.tar.gz
  • https: eg. https://domain.tld/libmaxminddb.tar.gz
  • file: eg. file:///home/build/libmaxminddb.tar.gz (see url.fileURLToPath)

Note that each occurrence of {{platform}} in your URL will be replaced by the current platform.