Executable not found in path on Windows

Hi !

Node version: 12.13.1 OS: Windows 10

I’m trying to create a simple fastText model for text classification, but the lib is not working fine on Windows. As soon as I add this code:

const fastText = new FastText({
      serializeTo: './models/fastText',
      trainFile: './trainingData.txt'
});

I have the error:

Error: executable not found in path
    at new FastText (C:\Users\madelpech\[...]\node_modules\fasttext.js\lib\index.js:104:23)

I have looked to the code and in the index.js file line 99 you are calling this._options.bin = Util.GetBinFolder('fasttext');. I have checked the binaries and it appears that the Windows binary is not named fasttext but fastText.exe instead. This should be the issue here.

Can you have a look and tell me if I am right?

Thanks!

[MarcDelp]

Hey @feernando998

Honestly, I can’t remember what was my final thought on this… I think that I ended changing the exe name for my local installation since the deployed image was based on Linux and didn’t need correction. This enabled me to develop on my local and then I could check on the image built that everything was fine.

[loretoparisi]

@feernando998 @MarcDelp thank you guys, feel free to submit a PR to fix this issue, currently I do not have a Windows machine to test it, but if you can submit a PR, so that it will go in in the repo.

Thanks a lot.