As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been wanting to use Buster.JS as test framework for my implementation of the master thesis. After installing node, I was ready to install buster. Or so I thought. With npm (package manager for node) I tried “npm install -g buster”, which gave me an error (full output). It seemed that the module glob wasn’t available in the version buster needed.
As part of the thesis I’ve been looking around for test framework for JavaScript. I’ve found Buster.JS, and its support of mocking, stubbing and asynchronous tests appealed to me. It required Node.JS to work, so I began the task of installing it. I started getting errors, and as I’m not that experienced with the whole compiling-process (I’ve experience from courses where we programmed with C and assembly, but ain’t really fond of it). It took me some time debugging the problem, but the line “/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz” stood out after some iterations.