Best to ask this kind of question in
#C9VBGLUM9 channel next time Chris. But for now, under “Instructions > Requirements” section, there is a link to
https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation which discusses the dependencies required for this.
To do any development on Mac OSX, you would had to install the XCode build chain, which covers those needs. Depending on your linux distribution, by default you may not have these