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The specified module could not be found, with electron v4.0.0. #1522

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iacovlev-pavel opened this issue Dec 24, 2018 · 32 comments
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The specified module could not be found, with electron v4.0.0. #1522

iacovlev-pavel opened this issue Dec 24, 2018 · 32 comments

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@iacovlev-pavel
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With electron 3.0.12 everything seems to work fine.
Changed version to 4.0.0, removed node_modules, did npm i, all ok.

If I run electron-rebuild, the command runs, but it does not rebuild the sharp module, does not seem it's picking it up.
If I run require('sharp') I get:
The specified module could not be found

If I cd to node_modules/sharp and try to recompile it manually:
node-gyp rebuild --target=4.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron
and try require('sharp') I still get The specified module could not be found.

Note: I have checked and sharp.node is present at the specified path.

@lovell
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lovell commented Dec 26, 2018

The target flag passed to node-gyp refers to the version of Node rather than the version of Electron.

You'll probably want to use electron-rebuild.

@iacovlev-pavel
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iacovlev-pavel commented Dec 27, 2018

electron-rebuild is what I am currently using with Electron 3, but it fails with Electron 4.
And by fail I mean it does nothing, it just skips the sharp package, that's why I tried manually with node-gyp.

From what I understand the version is for electron since dist-url is set to https://atom.io/download/electron

@lovell
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lovell commented Dec 28, 2018

Is this on Windows? If so, try pointing Dependency Walker at the sharp.node file to help determine which shared library might be causing the problem.

@ddding
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ddding commented Dec 29, 2018

sharp.zip
I have the same issue and here is my Dependency Walker file.

@lovell
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lovell commented Dec 29, 2018

Thanks, according to that .dwi file the missing shared library is node.dll so I guess either something changed in the way Electron 4 provides/packages this and/or electron-rebuild does not yet support it.

I'd imagine other native modules are going to fail in a similar manner - please can you report this downstream.

@lovell
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lovell commented Dec 29, 2018

"However, in Electron 4.x and higher, the symbols needed by native modules are exported by electron.exe, and there is no node.dll in Electron 4.x."

https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules#troubleshooting

@ddding
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ddding commented Dec 30, 2018

Thank you, but I still don't understand how to make things right, or maybe I should just wait for electron-rebuild to release some update?

@lovell
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lovell commented Jan 6, 2019

Please can someone confirm that this problem is limited to Windows only. Is anyone able to produce a minimal repo that exhibits the problem?

@groboter
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groboter commented Jan 6, 2019

I have placed a very simple repo which exhibits the problem here https://github.com/groboter/sharpErrorTestApp. I hope it is ok, because it is my first one!

Basically it is just the Quick-Start-App from https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start and I just added line 3 const {sharp} = require('sharp') which produces the error.

@lovell
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lovell commented Jan 8, 2019

The version of Node in Electron 3 does not appear to maintain ABI compatibility with the version in Electron 4 despite both claiming to provide ABI version 64.

When you run electron-rebuild it calls prebuild-install, which correctly reports that it has a prebuilt binary for Electron with Node ABI version 64. However this binary fails with Electron 4 due to a change in Node ABI without a corresponding version increment.

You can hack your way around this by removing prebuild-install before running electron-rebuild.

npm install
rm -rf node_modules/prebuild-install
./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

In summary, Electron needs to sort out its ABI versioning.

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lovell commented Jan 9, 2019

Here's confirmation of the Electron 3 vs 4 ABI incompatibility - electron/node-abi#55 (comment) - this will impact all native modules that provide prebuilt binaries for Electron.

@iacovlev-pavel
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@lovell Thank you for clarification and for such an awesome library in general.

@midevnull
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midevnull commented Feb 22, 2019

electron/electron#16687 Am I correct that this should fix the issue?
But I am still getting an error when building with electron-builder on mac.

pp threw an error during load
Error: The module '//node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node'
was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 64. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 69. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module (for instance, using npm rebuild or npm install).
at process.module.(anonymous function) [as dlopen] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:160:31)
at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:722:18)
at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as .node] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:160:31)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:602:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:541:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:533:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:640:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
at bindings (/
/node_modules/sharp/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:112:48)
at Object. (/*/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js:10:34)

This is probably an electron-builder issue and not a sharp one.

@lovell
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lovell commented Feb 22, 2019

@midevnull electron-userland/electron-builder#3660

@lovell lovell added this to the v0.22.0 milestone Mar 10, 2019
@xland
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xland commented Mar 14, 2019

Electron 4.1.0 seems to have solved this issue, is it?

Electron 4.1.0 was released to work around issues users were experiencing with node-pre-gyp based native modules and our ABI number in Electron >= 4.0.4.

Fixed a crash when calling ECDH.setPrivateKey(). #17297
TouchBarSegmentedControl instances now correctly update when you update the segments array and remove label or image dynamically. #17335
https://electronjs.org/releases/stable#4.1.0

@tomaschyly
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I tried just Electron v4.1.0, but in my case it did not help. Gonna have to wait for sharp update.

@mceachen
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mceachen commented Mar 14, 2019

I tried just Electron v4.1.0, but in my case it did not help. Gonna have to wait for sharp update.

@tomaschyly: Did you clean your build machine? I had to not only delete my project's node_modules, but

rm -rf ~/.electron ~/.electron-gyp ~/.npm/_libvips* ~/.node-gyp ~/.cache/yarn/*/*sharp*

(I added it as postinstall script)

@tomaschyly
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Yes I did try to clean everything, but it seems that I will have to wait for update like I have been told here #1608

@lovell
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lovell commented Mar 19, 2019

The ABI version of 69 used by Electron 4 is (correctly) considered "oddball" by the prebuild infrastructure so this is still blocked until the approach proposed in prebuild/prebuild-ci#11 is addressed.

@lovell lovell removed this from the v0.22.0 milestone Mar 19, 2019
@JakeRadMSFT
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JakeRadMSFT commented Mar 21, 2019

What is the workaround for this? Using Electron 3?

@xland
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xland commented Mar 21, 2019

@JakeRadMSFT

Yes, I have rolled back to Electron 3.1.6(The last version of 3.x.x)

@JakeRadMSFT
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@xland have you gotten it to work after packaging it?

With 3.1.6, I'm hitting this issue: #1519.

@xland
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xland commented Mar 21, 2019

@JakeRadMSFT
Electron 3.1.6 and sharp 0.21.3 work well together on macOS, Win10 and Ubuntu

https://github.com/xland/xiangxuema

@inukshuk
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I think everything already works with Electron 4.1.

I originally run into this same issue, but then I realized that npm update --depth 9999 did not update sharp's sub-dependencies and I was stuck on older versions of prebuild-install and node-abi. Having updated those and also node-gyp globally sharp 0.21.3 works for me on Electron 4.1.

Screenshot from 2019-03-22 09-39-58

I'm having unrelated issues with 0.22 / libvips 8.7.4 on Ubuntu Xenial (because of older versions of librsvg or cairo, not sure yet) but on newer Linux systems I had that combination working as well.

@JakeRadMSFT
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JakeRadMSFT commented Mar 22, 2019

Fixed my issue on Mac (Mac works with Electron 4.1). See #1519

One windows, I still get "Error: The specified module could not be found".

Now trying a downgrade to 3.1.6.

Update:

Doesn't work with 3.1.6. Perhaps I'm hitting some other issue?

@JakeRadMSFT
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JakeRadMSFT commented Mar 22, 2019

Sigh ... it's because of this: mapbox/node-pre-gyp#278

soon to be fixed: mapbox/node-pre-gyp#279

@lovell
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lovell commented Mar 22, 2019

Should anyone want to speed all this along, the best thing to do would be to work on prebuild/prebuild-ci#11 and ensure ABI version 69 is added to the "oddball" list. Without this a prebuilt sharp will not be available for Electron 4 / ABI 69.

@JakeRadMSFT
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JakeRadMSFT commented Mar 22, 2019

That's actually not the issue anymore ... I think it works against 4. I'll open a new bug ...

@barakman
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Encountered a similar issue with web3 and electron.

Posted an MVP at electron/electron-quick-start#269.

@lovell
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lovell commented Apr 7, 2019

I've opened a PR to help ensure prebuilt binaries for the latest Electron 4 / ABI 69 will soon be available - see prebuild/prebuild-ci#16

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lovell commented Apr 25, 2019

v0.22.1 now available with prebuilt binaries for Electron 4 and 5.

Please remember to run electron-rebuild (which may itself also need updating to pick up the new ABI versions),

@lovell lovell closed this as completed Apr 25, 2019
@xland
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xland commented Aug 8, 2019

This issue occur on electron 6.0.1.
@lovell

electron-rebuild -f -w sharp

- Searching dependency tree
An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
Could not detect abi for version 6.0.1 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron

Error: Could not detect abi for version 6.0.1 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
    at Object.getAbi (D:\project\xiangxuema\node_modules\node-abi\index.js:30:9)
    at new Rebuilder (D:\project\xiangxuema\node_modules\electron-rebuild\lib\src\rebuild.js:122:28)
    at rebuildWithOptions (D:\project\xiangxuema\node_modules\electron-rebuild\lib\src\rebuild.js:393:23)
    at Object.doRebuild [as rebuild] (D:\project\xiangxuema\node_modules\electron-rebuild\lib\src\rebuild.js:400:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\project\xiangxuema\node_modules\electron-rebuild\lib\src\cli.js:115:33)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at fulfilled (D:\project\xiangxuema\node_modules\electron-rebuild\lib\src\cli.js:5:58)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 4294967295
npm ERR! [email protected] buildsharp: `electron-rebuild -f -w sharp`
npm ERR! Exit status 4294967295
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] buildsharp script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\allen\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-08-08T14_07_46_362Z-debug.log

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