Electron with ffi-napi npm start fails with node-gyp error code
See original GitHub issue- Node Version: node 17.0.1 and npm 8.1.2
- Platform: Windows 10, 10.0.19042 64bit
- Module: ffi-napi
- Visual studio: Visual Studio Community 2019 (executed npm config set msvs_version 2019)
- Python: Python 3.10.0
Created an app following these instructions
https://www.electronforge.io/guides/framework-integration/react
Added
npm install ffi-napi
npm start fails on Preparing native dependencies with the error:
| Preparing native dependencies: 0 / 1gyp: name 'openssl_fips' is not defined while evaluating condition 'openssl_fips != ""' in binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp
× Preparing native dependencies: 0 / 1
An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
node-gyp failed to rebuild 'C:\projects\gyp-bug-reproduce\node_modules\ffi-napi'.
For more information, rerun with the DEBUG environment variable set to "electron-rebuild".
Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
Error: node-gyp failed to rebuild 'C:\projects\gyp-bug-reproduce\node_modules\ffi-napi'.
For more information, rerun with the DEBUG environment variable set to "electron-rebuild".
Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
The example to reproduce is here https://github.com/topheroes/gyp-bug-reproduce
Please advise
Issue Analytics
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- Created 2 years ago
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- Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)
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@richardlau Downgrading Node to 16.13.0 helped
I just spent my day solving this. Eventually, here’s what has worked for me (also on SO ):
install the latest
node-gyplocally:in
binding.gyp, add (at the top):