sharp: The specified module could not be found, with electron v4.0.0.

With electron 3.0.12 everything seems to work fine. Changed version to 4.0.0, removed node_modules, did npm i, all ok.

If I run electron-rebuild, the command runs, but it does not rebuild the sharp module, does not seem it’s picking it up. If I run require('sharp') I get: The specified module could not be found

If I cd to node_modules/sharp and try to recompile it manually: node-gyp rebuild --target=4.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron and try require('sharp') I still get The specified module could not be found.

Note: I have checked and sharp.node is present at the specified path.

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Created 6 years ago
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v0.22.1 now available with prebuilt binaries for Electron 4 and 5.

Please remember to run electron-rebuild (which may itself also need updating to pick up the new ABI versions),

lovell on Apr 25, 2019

I’ve opened a PR to help ensure prebuilt binaries for the latest Electron 4 / ABI 69 will soon be available - see https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild-ci/pull/16

lovell on Apr 7, 2019

The version of Node in Electron 3 does not appear to maintain ABI compatibility with the version in Electron 4 despite both claiming to provide ABI version 64.

When you run electron-rebuild it calls prebuild-install, which correctly reports that it has a prebuilt binary for Electron with Node ABI version 64. However this binary fails with Electron 4 due to a change in Node ABI without a corresponding version increment.

You can hack your way around this by removing prebuild-install before running electron-rebuild.

npm install
rm -rf node_modules/prebuild-install
./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

In summary, Electron needs to sort out its ABI versioning.

lovell on Jan 8, 2019

Here’s confirmation of the Electron 3 vs 4 ABI incompatibility - https://github.com/lgeiger/node-abi/pull/55#issuecomment-452588421 - this will impact all native modules that provide prebuilt binaries for Electron.

lovell on Jan 9, 2019

I have placed a very simple repo which exhibits the problem here https://github.com/groboter/sharpErrorTestApp. I hope it is ok, because it is my first one!

Basically it is just the Quick-Start-App from https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start and I just added line 3 const {sharp} = require('sharp') which produces the error.

groboter on Jan 6, 2019

@midevnull https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/3660

lovell on Feb 22, 2019

electron-rebuild is what I am currently using with Electron 3, but it fails with Electron 4. And by fail I mean it does nothing, it just skips the sharp package, that’s why I tried manually with node-gyp.

From what I understand the version is for electron since dist-url is set to https://atom.io/download/electron

iacovlev-pavel on Dec 27, 2018