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Problem with Electron 11

See original GitHub issue

I’ve just tested the new release (v1.6.4) (https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/pull/407) and it breaks my app on Electron 11 (tested on macos and ubuntu 20).

However it works on Electron 10 and Electron 12 beta 1 🤔

Error message:

Uncaught Error: The module '.../node_modules/usb/build/Release/usb_bindings.node'
was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 87. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 85. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module (for instance, using `npm rebuild` or `npm install

For reference: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/abi_version_registry.json

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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kevinmehallcommented, Jan 30, 2021

83 is Node 14, so that’s getting chosen based on your Node, rather than Electron version. That’s a different error than the 85/87 mismatch from your original post. I don’t really know how electron-rebuild is supposed to work, or what’s responsible for downloading the right prebuild when using electron.

I confirmed that the usb-v1.6.4-electron-v85-linux-x64.tar.gz on the release actually contains a .node file build for v87, so even if it were downloading the “right” file, you’d still get the wrong version. I opened https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild/issues/273 for that.

I’ve had enough of this prebuild ABI madness and am not going to debug this further. Hopefully N-API (#399) will avoid all these problems.

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thegeckocommented, Feb 14, 2021

Fixed in v1.6.5