gpt4all: Unable to build typescript binding

System Info

gpt4all version: Unsure (cloned the gpt4all repo 6/17/2023) Python version: Python 3.10.10 Platform: OSX (M1) Node version: 20.3

Information

• The official example notebooks/scripts
• My own modified scripts

Related Components

• backend
• bindings
• python-bindings
• chat-ui
• models
• circleci
• docker
• api

Reproduction

1. After cloning, navigate to gpt4all-bindings/typescript
2. Following the README, run yarn
3. Get the following error:

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/gpt4all/../../gpt4all-backend/llmodel_c.o
../../../gpt4all-backend/llmodel_c.cpp:31:5: error: cannot use 'try' with exceptions disabled
    try {
    ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/gpt4all/../../gpt4all-backend/llmodel_c.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2

Analysis:

The c++ code that we are trying to compile is using try statements and throw statements. However, the c++ compiler flags provided in binding.gyp prevent the use of exceptions in c++ code (link), making compilation impossible.

I tried modifying the compiler flag to be -fexceptions instead of -fno-exceptions in an attempt to allow exceptions, but this did not change the behavior.

Expected behavior

I would like to be able to run yarn in the typescript binding directory, as specified in the README, without errors, so I can begin using typescript bindings in my node project.