electron-builder: Cannot find module '7zip-bin-mac' when packaging for mac

Version: 19.27.0

Target: mac

Getting this error message suddenly. Might have something to do with 7zip-bin-osx being renamed to 7zip-bin-mac?:

electron-builder 19.27.0
Using electron-builder.json configuration file
No native production dependencies
Packaging for darwin x64 using electron 1.7.6 to dist/mac
Downloading tmp-27704-1-SHASUMS256.txt-1.7.6
[============================================>] 100.0% of 2.93 kB (2.93 kB/s)
Error: Cannot find module '7zip-bin-mac'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (<project-path>/node_modules/7zip-bin/index.js:13:67)
    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:409:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at _load_zipBin (<project-path>/node_modules/electron-builder/out/packager/dirPackager.js:60:22)
error Command failed with exit code 255.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 4
Comments: 20 (14 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix: do not use optional dependencies because NPM is broken by design Close #2013 — committed to develar/electron-builder by develar 6 years ago
fix: do not use optional dependencies because NPM is broken by design Close #2013 — committed to develar/electron-builder by develar 6 years ago

Most upvoted comments

NEVER use npm. Especially, NEVER use package–lock.json npm has a lot of bugs and each new version add new ones. Do not waste your time — just use reliable, fast, stable yarn.

+20

develar on Oct 18, 2017

If you use NPM — do not use it. Please remove node_modules and install using yarn.

+12

develar on Aug 30, 2017

May be it helps to somebody. In my case when I had this error, optional package installation was disabled. To check it run npm config list and notice optional setting. If it false try to set it by npm config set optional true and reinstall packages by npm install. And @develar don’t push people to change something because you or your soft don’t like this “something”. Usually people can’t just change it when the product in production or the team accustomed to present choice. Any change cost money. And by the way after all each soft has bugs. Yarn isn’t an exception.

Eshva on Nov 20, 2017

I used to prefer Yarn but recent versions of npm work just fine to be honest. I think the issue is that electron-builder has been developed with yarn only and relies on its peculiarities. Maybe the doc should be updated to reflect this - instead of “Yarn is strongly recommended instead of npm” it should be “Yarn is required. It will NOT work with npm.”

laurent22 on Nov 13, 2017

Just ran into this. rm -rf ./node_modules && rm yarn.lock && yarn install fixed it.

ashokgelal on Sep 3, 2017

electron-builder 20.14.4+ doesn’t use optional dependencies. Enjoy.

develar on May 19, 2018

We had a similar problem. In our case, it seems to occur because “packages-lock.json” is generated by “npm i” (npm v5.3) on Windows, committed to git, and then used to build on Mac (on Travis).

It seems that packages.lock only mentions that “electron-builder” requires “7zip-bin” which then requires"7zip-bin-win" and does not mention “7zip-bin-mac”.

@develar How do you recommend we deal with this (since you are author of 7zip-bin where both 7zip-bin-win and 7zip-bin-mac are listed as optional dependencies)? Or is this something that is solved by using yarn?

joaocc on Oct 18, 2017

Please install as optional dependency in your project as workaround:

 "optionalDependencies": {
    "7zip-bin-mac": "^1.0.1",
  },

develar on Aug 31, 2017