Could not detect abi for version 6.0.0 and runtime electron

[ottosson]

Hi

I just updated my electron project from 5 to 6 and get the following error when running npm install:

> node postinstall

  • electron-builder  version=21.2.0
  • loaded configuration  file=C:\project\electron-builder.json
  • rebuilding native dependencies  [email protected] platform=win32 arch=x64
  • install prebuilt binary  name=registry-js version=1.8.0 platform=win32 arch=x64
  • build native dependency from sources  name=registry-js
                                          version=1.8.0
                                          platform=win32
                                          arch=x64
                                          reason=prebuild-install failed with error (run with env DEBUG=electron-builder to get more information)
                                          error=C:\project\node_modules\node-abi\index.js:30
      throw new Error('Could not detect abi for version ' + target + ' and runtime ' + runtime + '.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of ' + runtime)
      ^

    Error: Could not detect abi for version 6.0.0 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
...

I have removed my node_modules folder and updated to the latest version of registry-js (1.8.0) but still get the error. Not sure if I have missed something else... Any suggestion?

[shiftkey]

@ottosson thanks for the report! I'm not sure offhand because I thought #165 would address this, and it was included with 1.8.0 which you seem to be using.

Check you don't also have a node-abi dependency in your project that might be older than the current version. If you do ensure that you bump it to 2.10.0 which contains the Electron 6 update.

[ottosson]

I don't have node-abi in my package.json

[ottosson]

Ok so coming back to this issue again I tried to add node-abi (currently 2.11.0) as a dependency for my project and it works! I thought the node-abi would be added by another dependency, (maybe registry-js?), but it seems I was wrong. This fixes the issue for me.

Closing!

[shiftkey]

@ottosson

I thought the node-abi would be added by another dependency, (maybe registry-js?), but it seems I was wrong.

It does exist as a dependency of prebuild-install - here's the version I got when installing into electron-quick-start:

$ npm ls node-abi
[email protected] /Users/shiftkey/src/electron-quick-start
└─┬ [email protected]
  └─┬ [email protected]
    └── [email protected]

But this dependency is a pretty relaxed version range:

    "node-abi": "^2.7.0",

What I believe was happening was that something else in your project had it's own node-abi dependency, and that older version was being used after upgrading to Electron 6 due to how npm de-dupes dependencies and the relaxed version constraint.

Anyway, overriding it by choosing the latest version in your project is the recommended option here - I'm glad you were able to find a workaround!

[ottosson]

Ah, makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.

[yagoubigithub]

update node-abi work for me
yarn upgrade node-abi
or
npm update node-abi