Electron-builder: FSevent binaries not found

[TimoZikeli]

• Version: 20.38.5

• Target: macOS

When trying to build the binaries, there is an attempt to download the file https://fsevents-binaries.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/v1.2.7/fse-v1.2.7-electron-v4.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz . However, a 404 error is thrown since the file does not exist. I also tried to download it manually, but it seems like it does not exist at all.

This is the stacktrace:

  • electron-builder version=20.38.5
  • loaded configuration file=package.json ("build" field)
  • rebuilding native production dependencies platform=darwin arch=x64
Error: /usr/local/bin/node exited with code 1
Output:

> [email protected] install /Users/USER/WebstormProjects/PROGRAM_NAME/node_modules/fsevents
> node install

  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/.node
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/fse/fsevents.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/fse/fsevents.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/fse.node
Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/Users/USER/WebstormProjects/PROGRAM_NAME/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/electron-v4.0-darwin-x64/fse.node --module_name=fse --module_path=/Users/USER/WebstormProjects/PROGRAM_NAME/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/electron-v4.0-darwin-x64 --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi' (1)
  COPY /Users/USER/WebstormProjects/PROGRAM_NAME/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/electron-v4.0-darwin-x64/fse.node
  TOUCH Release/obj.target/action_after_build.stamp

Error output:
node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download 
node-pre-gyp WARN Tried to download(404): https://fsevents-binaries.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/v1.2.7/fse-v1.2.7-electron-v4.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for [email protected] and [email protected] (electron-v4.0 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (electron-v4.0 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error Connection closed while downloading tarball file 

[matthiasn]

Same problem here

[basicallysteve]

I opened up an issue on the fsevents repo about this as well as this might not necessarily pertain to electron-builder.

[basicallysteve]

I just want to come back and tell you guys what worked for me.

I switched from npm to yarn and guess what? It magically started working again! So if you are using npm instead of yarn as your package manager, I would suggest making that switch.

[avdyushin]

@basicallysteve can you provide more details? I have problem with 404 even with yarn

[matthiasn]

Using yarn did not help for me. However, it helped on both my development machine and in a VM to go back to node 8, with either nvm use 8 on my development machine, or nvm install 8 in the virtual machine, as that did not previously have it installed.

[Cirych]

The most simplest way using npm I found 😄

npm i --save-dev [email protected]

[artdiniz]

I'm on macOS 10.14.15 running electron builder: 20.38.5 and stumbled upon this error when running electron-builder after updating node from 8 to 12.

Removing node_modules and re-executing npm install got everything up and running again 👍

[dijs]

I have tried all the above solutions and I am still getting this error. Any other ideas?

[defusioner]

Same problem here on Mac 10.14.6, node 10.x, electron 6.0.3 and builder at 21.2.0.

UPD: simply removed the rebuild with the option npmRebuild: false in package.json. All deps are already installed, so no need to re-download them. No node or package manager switches required.

[dijs]

@defusioner Even when I add npmRebuild: false to package.json, electron-builder still executes the "rebuilding native dependencies" step

[defusioner]

@dijs Sure that your config is something like this?

"build": {
    "appId": "desktop",
    "copyright": "Copyright © 2019 ${author}",
    "npmRebuild": false,

It should stdout this line: skipped dependencies rebuild reason=npmRebuild is set to false

[dijs]

I had not put it in the build config!

Now it is working! Yay

Thanks

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