Incompatibility with node-serialport (bindings.node initialization failed)

• 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.

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

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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']
    }
  }
}