Some libraries like zeromq.js need runtime libraries with bindings which they ship along. Those binaries exist under node_modules/zeromq/prebuilds.

Simply by creating a new Next.js app, installing https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq.js and trying to import it and running npm run dev and use one of its classes would throw a No native build was found for platform=linux arch=x64 runtime=node abi=115 uv=1 libc=glibc node=20.11.0 webpack=true loaded from: /app/.next/server. I found out that if I print this dir variable used (among other things) to search for binaries in node-gyp-builder it print .next/server/... instead of node_modules/... and since the binaries have not been copied it fails.

I tried using the outputFileTracingIncludes option as explained in https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/api-reference/next-config-js/output#caveats but without success.

Here's the files I would like to have in .next/server.

❯ tree node_modules/zeromq/prebuilds
node_modules/zeromq/prebuilds
├── darwin-arm64
│   └── node.napi.glibc.node
├── darwin-x64
│   └── node.napi.glibc.node
├── linux-x64
│   ├── node.napi.glibc.node
│   └── node.napi.musl.node
├── win32-ia32
│   └── node.napi.glibc.node
└── win32-x64
    └── node.napi.glibc.node

6 directories, 6 files

Since I don't know in what area work should be done I posted the same problem as an issue to the various tools involved:

• zeromq works standalone but not when used within Next.js: "No native build was found for ..." next.js#61844
• zeromq.js failing on Next.js "No native build was found for ..." zeromq/zeromq.js#600
• Next.js does not bring over prebuilds folder into .next/server: "No native build was found for ..." prebuild/node-gyp-build#65

Thanks for the help and apologies if I have been generating noise by posting so many issues.