Electron with ffi-napi npm start fails with node-gyp error code

• Node Version: node 17.0.1 and npm 8.1.2
• Platform: Windows 10, 10.0.19042 64bit
• Module: ffi-napi
• Visual studio: Visual Studio Community 2019 (executed npm config set msvs_version 2019)
• Python: Python 3.10.0

Created an app following these instructions https://www.electronforge.io/guides/framework-integration/react Added npm install ffi-napi

npm start fails on Preparing native dependencies with the error:

| Preparing native dependencies: 0 / 1gyp: name 'openssl_fips' is not defined while evaluating condition 'openssl_fips != ""' in binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp
× Preparing native dependencies: 0 / 1

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
node-gyp failed to rebuild 'C:\projects\gyp-bug-reproduce\node_modules\ffi-napi'.
For more information, rerun with the DEBUG environment variable set to "electron-rebuild".

Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1


Error: node-gyp failed to rebuild 'C:\projects\gyp-bug-reproduce\node_modules\ffi-napi'.
For more information, rerun with the DEBUG environment variable set to "electron-rebuild".

Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1

The example to reproduce is here https://github.com/topheroes/gyp-bug-reproduce

Please advise

[topheroes]

@richardlau Downgrading Node to 16.13.0 helped

[noseratio]

I just spent my day solving this. Eventually, here’s what has worked for me (also on SO ):

• install the latest node-gyp locally:

  npm install -d node-gyp@latest
  

• in binding.gyp, add (at the top):

  {
      "variables": {
          "openssl_fips" : "0" 
      },
  
      ...      
  }