Broken windows build for electron about grpc-node

[murgatroid99]

This seems like some sort of version mismatch issue, because in both cases that path is defined by gRPC. Do you have an error message that you can share? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling your node_modules, to see if that fixes it?

[manu-st]

I'm getting an error at runtime:

module.js:472 Uncaught Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Dev\client\node_modules\grpc-caller\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\electron-v1.7-win32-x64-unknown\grpc_node.node'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (C:\Dev\client\node_modules\electron\dist\resources\electron.asar\common\reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Dev\client\node_modules\grpc-caller\node_modules\grpc\src\grpc_extension.js:30:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Dev\client\node_modules\grpc-caller\node_modules\grpc\src\grpc_extension.js:34:3)

[murgatroid99]

What is the contents of C:\Dev\client\node_modules\grpc-caller\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\?

[manu-st]

The content is made of 2 folders:

• electron-v1.7-win32-x64-{libc}
• node-v57-win32-x64-unknown

Before it was just

• electron-v1.7-win32-x64
• node-v57-win32-x64

[murgatroid99]

That looks like you're building it from source. How exactly are you building it? What are the installed versions of grpc and node-pre-gyp (you can see this with npm ls)?

For now, I would suggest installing the precompiled electron binary by running npm install --runtime=electron --target=1.7.0.

[manu-st]

I'm using yarn instead of npm to compile my project and use electron-builder to build my electron app. Not sure how to translate the npm command in that context.

This fails with version 1.7.2 of grpc and version 0.6.39 of node-pre-gyp.

[murgatroid99]

I'm not sure if it will work the same, but hopefully you can just do the same thing but with yarn install.

[nicolasnoble]

Closing stale issues. Also, the supported method for installing gRPC is through the downloading of pre-compiled binaries with npm install and node-pre-gyp. Supporting all edge cases is impossible for us. We're happy to help debugging and troubleshooting issues, but we need more active communication for this.

[yovanoc]

Related or not? -> electron-userland/electron-builder#3049

[nicolasnoble]

Please don't bump older issues like this. Also, please read our recent information on Electron. https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/tree/master/packages/grpc-native-core