node-gyb build error on hello world - node.js

Question

I was trying to compile the node hello world addon and when I call
node-gyp configure build it generates several errors.
../binding.cc:6:19: error: unknown type name 'FunctionCallbackInfo'
void Method(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
^
../binding.cc:6:39: error: expected ')'
void Method(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
^
../binding.cc:6:12: note: to match this '('
void Method(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
^
../binding.cc:8:15: error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'v8::HandleScope'
HandleScope scope(isolate);
^ ~~~~~~~
/***/***/.node-gyp/0.10.36/deps/v8/include/v8.h:473:3: note: candidate constructor not viable: no known conversion from 'v8::Isolate *' to 'const v8::HandleScope' for 1st
argument
HandleScope(const HandleScope&);
^
/****/***/.node-gyp/0.10.36/deps/v8/include/v8.h:448:3: note: candidate constructor not viable: requires 0 arguments, but 1 was provided
HandleScope();
^
../binding.cc:9:3: error: use of undeclared identifier 'args'
args.GetReturnValue().Set(String::NewFromUtf8(isolate, "world"));
^
../binding.cc:9:37: error: no member named 'NewFromUtf8' in 'v8::String'
args.GetReturnValue().Set(String::NewFromUtf8(isolate, "world"));
What can be the problem?

Answer 1

The problem is that the example assumes you're running Node 0.12, but you're running Node 0.10 (0.10.36 by the looks of it). There have been big (backward-incompatible) changes in the way addons are structured in Node 0.12.
Here's the 0.10-compatible version: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/aa35564ca1c9f3854bc5f7983f2f00cb51f67ffe/test/addons/hello-world/binding.cc
An awesome package that will take care of a lot of the differences between Node versions is nan.