module could not be found: notifications_bindings.node

[dulakm]

Hello,

I have electron-windows-interactive-notifications as my dependency. When I use clean npm install and after that electron-rebuild I get:

App threw an error during load
Error: The specified module could not be found.
\\?\C:\Users\moro\projects\tw-en-ty\node_modules\electron-windows-interactive-notifications\build\Release\notifications_bindings.node
    at Error (native)
    at process.module.(anonymous function) [as dlopen] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:583:18)
    at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as .node] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at bindings (C:\Users\moro\projects\tw-en-ty\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:76:44)

According to a NodeJS issue it seems to be a native dependency problem. When I examine notifications_bindings.node by dependencywalker I see following missing direct DLLs (among many missing nested):

Please, is it a problem with electron-windows-interactive-notifications or something else?

Also I found myself very confused resolving electron-windows-interactive-notifications issues as it is crossover of native and JS technologies which highly depends on the way an environment was set. Is there any OOTB-working sample for electron-windows-interactive-notifications that I could use as a reference?

Thank you!

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[Lissy93]

Can you confirm that this is not just a Windows permissions issue?

[dulakm]

@Lissy93 thanks for the response! I'm running everything as admin.

I tried finding missing dependencies on my file system and found them on following places:

• node.dll - node_modules\electron\dist\
• interactivenotifications.dll - node_modules\electron-windows-interactive-notifications\Rele‌​ase\
• api-...-.dll - c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt\DLLs\x64\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.d‌​ll

I'm thinking whether they shouldn't be relatively/absolutely referenced the same way kernel32.dll, ole32.dll or vcruntime140.dll are. What do you think?

By the way, can you help me get into the technologies? What is responsible for correct DLL linkings? Is it library itself, NodeRT or node-gyp?

[DesselBane]

Are there any news ? Having the same problem and still looking for a fix

[DesselBane]

Tried to simply copy the missing dependencies into the /node_modules/electron-windows-interactive-notifications/build/Release folder but ended up getting a new error

[jlsilva1994]

Hello, i have the same problem here, @felixrieseberg can you give some feedback? This kind of notifications are important, and your module seems to be the only who addresses this subject

[wiinf]

Hello at all,

After 6 hours playing around this issue, i found a solution.

The real problem is a missing InteractiveNotifications.dll which sould be copied by postinstall.js. postinstall.js is located in "electron-windows-interactive-notifications\scripts".

After study this file, i recognized that there are a x86 and x64 Bit version of the missing dll.

On x86 installations, copy node_modules\electron-windows-interactive-notifications\Release\InteractiveNotifications.dll to electron-windows-interactive-notifications\build\Release

On x64 installations, copy node_modules\electron-windows-interactive-notifications\x64\Release\InteractiveNotifications.dll to electron-windows-interactive-notifications\build\Release

@DesselBane , i had the same error with the x86 dll use 64bit one and it will work.

Sry for my english!

Greetings