electon-forge not compiling usb-detection

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Issue Details

• Electron Forge Version:
  • 6.0.0-beta.54
• Electron Version:
  • v12.0.1
• Operating System:
  • Windows 10 (1909)

Expected Behavior

From the description I expect electron-forge to automatically compile all native dependencies automatically

Actual Behavior

When installing packages (see https://github.com/sensslen/Cgf.CameraControl.Main.Gui) only one of the two native dependencies is recompiled (node-hid). The other package (usb-detection) is not. After running a manual build ( .\node_modules\.bin\electron-rebuild.cmd) all is good.

To Reproduce

• Checkout https://github.com/sensslen/Cgf.CameraControl.Main.Gui
• Try npm run start

Additional Information

The issue seems to come from the fact that the native dependencies are not direct dependencies, as I failed to reproduce the issue in a minimal examtle that just contains the required native dependencies.

[sensslen]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I know there are workarounds - as I wrote, I am able to run electron-rebuild manually and all is good afterwards. Nevertheless I feel this is a bug if the compilation is executed for one of two native dependencies only. Even more so, if things are compiling as expected when the native dependencies are added directly and not as dependency of some other node package.

[sensslen]

To be honest, I haven‘t tried in a while. The app I attempted to build used worker threads which I was unable to make work properly in the electron environment. Therefore I resorted to an alternative for now.