Electron-builder: Incompatibility with node-serialport (bindings.node initialization failed)

[kfatehi]

• Version: 20.38.5

• Target: Windows

• @serialport/bindings version v2.0.7

I'm using proton-native, which integrates with electron-builder, and initially filed an issue there, but the author said to file an issue here instead.

Please see the issue https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native/issues/196 for screenshots of the error.

There is an example project here: https://github.com/kfatehi/proton-native-serialport-issue

After npm install just run npm run dist to create the broken exe reproducing the error.

I also cross-posted in a comment on node-serialport and got a response indicating that serialport project plans to switch to N-API in April, which may be the proper solution to this issue.

[yrik]

Think I have similar issue #3736

[s00500]

Uff I have the same issue...

I am on macOS though and I used the vue-cli plugin to start

[develar]

Please try 21.0.11

[s00500]

Thanks for the quick reply, I was using vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder, the solution in my case was to mark serialport as external for the builder

// vue.config.js
module.exports = {
  pluginOptions: {
    electronBuilder: {
      externals: ['serialport']
    }
  }
}

[zugende]

Hi @s00500, I encounter the same problem as you but when I apply your vue.config.js I get the following error:

App threw an error during load Error: The module '\\?\C:\Users\Admin\projects\serial_test\node_modules\@serialport\bindings\build\Release\bindings.node' was compiled against a different Node.js version using NODE_MODULE_VERSION 47. This version of Node.js requires NODE_MODULE_VERSION 70. Please try re-compiling or re-installing the module (for instance, usingnpm rebuildornpm install). at process.func [as dlopen] (electron/js2c/asar.js:155:31) at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:857:18) at Object.func [as .node] (electron/js2c/asar.js:155:31) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:677:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:609:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:601:3) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:715:19) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:14:16) at bindings (C:\Users\Admin\projects\serial_test\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:112:48) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Admin\projects\serial_test\node_modules\@serialport\bindings\lib\win32.js:1:36) Done in 15.56s.

As I understood electron-builder will handle all the rebuilding for electron. Do you or somebody else know the answer to this error?

[s00500]

install electron-rebuild and run npx electron-rebuild -f -p