bamtools fails to open stdin when running in a Node environment

[anderspitman]

bamtools throws an exception when attempting to open stdin when spawned as a subprocess by Node.js. The solution is to build bamtools with:

cmake -DEnableNodeJS=true

This is mentioned in the CMake file:

bamtools/CMakeLists.txt

Line 66 in d24d850

# If planning to run in Node.js environment, run:

And is obvious once you find the right place in the code:

bamtools/src/api/internal/io/BamPipe_p.cpp

Line 35 in d24d850

#if defined(SYSTEM_NODEJS) && SYSTEM_NODEJS == 1

But it took me quite a bit of debugging to get to that point. Maybe it could be documented somewhere? At least hopefully someone will find this issue and save some time.