I'm building a native-addon and I'm using an external dependency that when
compiles outputs an object file (.o). I want my project to compile, then
compile the external dependency (via makefile not gyp) and then link the
resulting objects together to create my addon.
Is there a way to do
What is the external library / addon in question?
If the library is simple enough, the best way is to write a .gyp file
for it and do it the gyp way. I would highly encourage you to
attempt to do that. An example of this is node-sqlite3's sqlite3.gyp
file: