Failed to build in Electron #704

poralcode · 2021-09-27T08:54:23Z

Can anybody help me use this in Electron?

I tried the following command,

npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
npm install --save-dev better-sqlite3
.\node_modules\.bin\electron-rebuild.cmd

but every time I start running the application, I got an error of

..\better_sqlite3.node'
was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 83. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 98. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module (for instance, using `npm rebuild` or `npm install`).
    at process.func [as dlopen] (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:1800)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1170:18)
    at Object.func [as .node] (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:1800)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:982:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:823:12)
    at Function.c._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:13331)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1006:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:93:18)

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kryops · 2021-09-28T06:24:49Z

I ran into a similar problem when upgrading to Electron 15. The problem seems to be that

there are no pre-built binaries for Electron 15 yet (should be solved by add electron 14 and 15 #705)
electron-rebuild does not seem to build from source when it cannot find pre-built binaries

I got it working by rebuilding from source manually:

yarn --cwd .\node_modules\better-sqlite3\ build-release --target=15.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers

But I wonder if there is a way to make electron-rebuild automatically build from source when it cannot find pre-built binaries 🤔 (not sure whether this is a problem with better-sqlite3 or with electron-rebuild itself)

poralcode · 2021-09-29T12:39:29Z

Something doesn't add up to me. I go home, tried rebuilding from the source manually and it works. Then I go to office, do the same, thinking it will work but guess what? I got the same error. I'm scratching my hair right now.

tom2strobl · 2021-10-05T10:14:22Z

@kryops experienced 100% the same as you, manually building works, but it's tedious if electron-rebuild is set up as a postinstall; I have to manually rebuild after every module addition.

NODE_MODULE_VERSION is the abi number, which one can look up here: abi_version_registry eg.:

{ "modules": 98, "runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "15" },
{ "modules": 89, "runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "13" },
{ "modules": 83, "runtime": "node",     "variant": "v8_8.1",               "versions": "14.0.0" },

Basically it means that electron-rebuild is rebuilding, but for the wrong version. I think it's a wrong resolution here for new electron versions: https://github.com/electron/electron-rebuild/blob/master/src/rebuild.ts#L124
electron-rebuild uses node-abi 3.0.0, whereas node-abi is at 3.2.0, so adding the following to my package.json did the trick:

"resolutions": { "**/node-abi": "^3.2.0" },

Since node-abi is basically only used as a reference table, I'm fine with "overwriting" to the newest version, there are not breaking "feature" changes, it just houses the latest abi numbers for node versions.

I opened an issue at electron/rebuild#886 since it's an issue on their end, I think we can close the issue here.

kryops · 2021-10-05T13:03:58Z

@tom2strobl thanks so much for your analysis, I can confirm that the resolutions workaround fixes it for us as well! 😊

johnpyp · 2021-10-06T04:04:25Z

@tom2strobl Thanks, resolution fix working for us now too, along with a cloned version of better-sqlite3, that has updated GH releases to provide normal, fast remote prebuild-install 😄

cloverich · 2021-10-06T23:04:32Z

Linking #694

JoshuaWise · 2021-10-25T14:17:15Z

This should be fixed in v7.4.4.

zkrising · 2021-11-01T05:03:25Z

I'm not sure this is fixed in v7.4.4. I'm getting the exact same error:

...was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 93. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 98.

With better-sqlite at v7.4.4, repeatedly ran yarn rebuild and other things, can't seem to get it to version 98 at all.

node -v is 16.5, which is 1:1 with electron 15. This should work.

Also related, nowhere on https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/ does it list a version of NodeJS that has a NODE_MODULE_VERSION of 98. Am I missing something?

tom2strobl · 2021-11-02T09:52:51Z

Also related, nowhere on https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/ does it list a version of NodeJS that has a NODE_MODULE_VERSION of 98. Am I missing something?

See my comment above, 98 is an abi version, which you can find in this list: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/abi_version_registry.json

zkrising · 2021-11-02T15:05:47Z

See my comment above, 98 is an abi version, which you can find in this list: nodejs/node@master/doc/abi_version_registry.json

Ah, that's confusing. I managed to get this to sorta build by running electron-rebuild, but interestingly things like npm rebuild and yarn rebuild seem to change the ABI version to 89? Very weird.

johnpyp · 2021-11-02T19:08:55Z

@zkldi If you're using electron-builder, I'd recommend using a postinstall script to run electron-builder install-app-deps. It's generally more reliable than electron-rebuild in my experience. E.g:

"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
}

Picono435 · 2021-11-05T20:51:17Z

This issue is also happening to me still in 7.4.4? What did I do wrong?

electrovir · 2022-01-08T16:31:06Z

I don't get it, how are we supposed to fix this? I've added

"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
},
"resolutions": { "**/node-abi": "^3.2.0" },

to my package.json file and tried dozens of other combinations of fixes from StackOverflow and GitHub issues but no matter what I do I get:

was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 93. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 99. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module

Lermatroid · 2022-01-18T14:25:04Z

@electrovir did you find a solution to this?

electrovir · 2022-01-18T14:54:23Z

@electrovir did you find a solution to this?

@Lermatroid Nope 😕
My workaround so far is to just use JSON files instead 😆

jsaraiva · 2022-01-18T18:31:44Z

@electrovir did you find a solution to this?

Hello. Although I haven't had this problem in recent releases, the "buildDependenciesFromSource" option always worked for me.
#713 (comment)
Maybe it helps.

Cheers.

greg9504 · 2022-02-15T01:45:05Z

I have "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps" set and I added the
"build": {
"buildDependenciesFromSource": true
}
but neither worked when trying to use 7.4.0/7.4.4/7.5.0 of better-sqlite3.

I kept getting "was compiled against a different Node.js version using" error.

Solution below
@electrovir @Lermatroid

If you are getting this error:

was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 93. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 99. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module

I believe the wrong node headers are being downloaded. As an example I'm trying to build for Electron 16, so need NODE_MODULE_VERSION 99. However instead the standard headers (not the Electron ones) for Node version 16..0..0 are being downloaded (NODE_MODULE_VERSION 93) when I run the following command for better-sqlite3

build-release --target=16.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers

after which you will see that the wrong node distribution is being downloaded, look carefully at the output here and you will see that it is retrieved from:
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/node-v16.0.0-headers.tar.gz
It should be coming from electronjs.org

C:\src\opensourcejs\angular13-electron16\node_modules\better-sqlite3>npm run build-release --target=16.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers

> [email protected] build-release
> node-gyp rebuild --release

gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | x64
gyp info find Python using Python version 3.7.8 found at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\python.exe"
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/node-v16.0.0-headers.tar.gz       <---- NOT DL from electronjs.org
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/node-v16.0.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/win-x86/node.lib
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/win-arm64/node.lib
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/win-x64/node.lib
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/win-x64/node.lib
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/win-x86/node.lib
gyp http 404 https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.0.0/win-arm64/node.lib
gyp info find VS using VS2015 (14.0) found at:
gyp info find VS "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0"
gyp info find VS run with --verbose for detailed information
(rest of build output deleted)

And you will see if you go to your node-gyp cache
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\16.0.0\include\node\node_version.h
that NODE_MODULE_VERSION is set to 93.

This is the node that better-sqliite3 was built against, and it's wrong.

Now delete this directory, in my case:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\16.0.0

To get the correct Electron "node" I used this build command:
node-gyp rebuild --target=16.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers

C:\src\opensourcejs\angular13-electron16\node_modules\better-sqlite3>node-gyp rebuild --target=16.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | x64
gyp info find Python using Python version 2.7.16 found at "C:\Python27\python.exe"
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/node-v16.0.0-headers.tar.gz  <-- Correct headers from electronjs.org
gyp http 200 https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/node-v16.0.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/win-x86/node.lib
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/win-x64/node.lib
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/win-arm64/node.lib
gyp http 200 https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/win-arm64/node.lib
gyp http 200 https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http 200 https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/win-x86/node.lib
gyp http 200 https://electronjs.org/headers/v16.0.0/win-x64/node.lib
gyp info find VS using VS2019 (16.9.31229.75) found at:
gyp info find VS "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional"
(rest of build output deleted)

I have no idea why the first build script failed yet the second worked (taken from here https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/using-native-node-modules)

When looking at the better-sqlite3 package.json the command
npm run build-release --target=16.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers
should use the correct electron node, as the the target and arch seem to get passed on to node-gyp but not the --dist-url

And I'm not sure why the electron builder "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps" isn't doing the right thing.

Anyway if you got this far at least you'll understand WHERE the NODE_MODULE_VERSION is set to 93 and WHY and how to manually fix it.

cloverich mentioned this issue Oct 7, 2021

Undo better-sqlite3 work-around cloverich/chronicles#66

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