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Wrong prebuilt binary target for native dependency

See original GitHub issue

Node: 13.2.0
Version: 22.7.0
Electron Version: 9.0.5
Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current
Target: win/nsis
serialport: 9.0.0

I’ve been unable to successfully integrate the serialport npm module into my build. Here is my build configuration and script in my package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron .",
    "build": "npm-run-all --parallel build:main build:renderer",
    "build:main": "webpack --config ./webpack.config.main.js --mode production",
    "build:renderer": "webpack --config ./webpack.config.renderer.js --mode production",
    "pack": "npm run-script build && electron-builder --dir",
    "dist": "npm run-script build && electron-builder"
  },
  "build": {
    "appId": "my_app",
    "files": [
      "build/**/*",
      "node_modules/**/*"
    ]
  }

the result of my “dist” script:

  • build native dependency from sources  name=@serialport/bindings
                                          version=9.0.0
                                          platform=win32
                                          arch=x64
                                          reason=prebuild-install failed with error (run with env DEBUG=electron-builder to get more information)
                                          error=prebuild-install info begin Prebuild-install version 5.3.4
    prebuild-install WARN install prebuilt binaries enforced with --force!
    prebuild-install WARN install prebuilt binaries may be out of date!
    prebuild-install info looking for cached prebuild @ C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_prebuilds\90024b-bindings-v9.0.0-electron-v80-win32-x64.tar.gz
    prebuild-install http request GET https://github.com/serialport/node-serialport/releases/download/@serialport/bindings@9.0.0/bindings-v9.0.0-electron-v80-win32-x64.tar.gz
    prebuild-install http 404 https://github.com/serialport/node-serialport/releases/download/@serialport/bindings@9.0.0/bindings-v9.0.0-electron-v80-win32-x64.tar.gz
    prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=9.0.5 runtime=electron arch=x64 libc= platform=win32)

Now it seems to me that the target would be the v83 build since that corresponds to the chrome version used in electron’s 9.0.5 release and there is a v83 release of the serialport prebuilt binary in their releases, there is no v80 release. I do not know how electron-builder knows which release version to target or if this is a configuration issue with the serialport module. Should I be using an earlier version of electron/serialport? I have yet to try and put a re-named binary into that cache location.