I am struggling big time with the building process

[eldevelo]

TL;DR. Can you please tell me exactly which versions of Ubuntu and Node.js are you using to contribute to deck.gl?

Longer story

I keep getting errors when I run yarn bootstrap. The latest one is a C++ compilation error.

make: Entering directory '/home/xyz/Data/Programming/DeckGL/deck.gl/node_modules/gl/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/angle_common/angle/src/common/Float16ToFloat32.o
In file included from ../angle/src/common/debug.h:16,
                 from ../angle/src/common/mathutil.h:12,
                 from ../angle/src/common/Float16ToFloat32.cpp:9:
../angle/src/common/angleutils.h:36:14: error: ‘uintptr_t’ does not name a type

I think everything is caused by me trying to work with the wrong version of Ubuntu and Node.js. I was able to make progress and cross out a lot of errors that came before that. Here are some of the things that I had to do to get to where I am now.

• Switch to Ubuntu because I kept having issues with Windows.
• Downgrade node to fix a gyp error.
• Install pyvenv just to be able to install Python 2, configure it as the python command, again to make gyp happy.
• Install libpixman-1-dev manually.
• Install a rust package (sudo apt install librust-pangocairo-dev) just to fix a pangocairo pkg-config for which I could not find a suitable package.
• Probably I had to do more stuff that I already forgot.
• The C++ issue that I am encountering now is probably related to me having a GCC version that is too recent. I currently have no clue how to address this.

Thanks!