Cpanel shared Nodejs hosting GLIBC not found

[Jarajesh]

Hi all,
I am developing an app using fastify 5.6 & better-sqlite3 - 12.2.0
all is well and better-sqlite3 speed is phenomenal. The development was done in Windows 11 machine.

I am trying to host this in a shared hosting environment. The details are

• Cloudlinux
• litespeed
• Cpanel
• Node version 22.18.0

When I try to install the app I get this error
npm error prebuild-install warn install /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found

When I checked the Terminal this server has Glibc ver 2.28.
I tried downgrading the version of better-sqlite till 7.5.3 the error still persists.

Is there any workaround for this issue?
I read about something called pre-built binaries and with my inexperience couldn't make any sense out of it.
Unfortunately I cannot upgrade the server or Glibc?
I am hard bound to this server for the next 18 months.

Linking a generic article that my hosting service provider has shared for the details on hosting nodejs applications in cpanel shared hosting.
I have the option to choose multiple node version way down till 10.24.1.

[mceachen]

That glibc came out in 2017. https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Glibc%20Timeline

You’ll need to compile better-sqlite3 yourself on that box, or run a much older version of this library—but then you won’t be able to run a recent version of node.

[Jarajesh]

@mceachen
Thanks for the reply.

"compile better-sqlite3 yourself on that box" -

How can I go ahead and do this?
Any pointers in this regards will be helpful.

[mceachen]

https://github.com/WiseLibs/better-sqlite3/tree/master/docs