Electron rebuild with own version of OpenCV

[spstrademark]

OpenCV version:: 4.1.2 OpenCV-contrib : No Nodejs version: 14.15.3 OS: Windows 10

I have been struggling to add opencv4nodejs to my electron app for days now with no success so i gave up and decided to ask what am i doing wrong? I have installed windows-build-tools using the following command npm install --global windows-build-tools

My dependencies in my package.json look like this :

  "dependencies": {
    "electron": "^10.2.0",
    "opencv4nodejs": "^5.6.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron-rebuild": "^2.3.4"
  },
  "opencv4nodejs": {
    "disableAutoBuild": 1,
    "opencvIncludeDir": "C:\\tools\\opencv\\build\\include",
    "opencvLibDir": "C:\\tools\\opencv\\build\\x64\\vc15\\lib",
    "opencvBinDir": "C:\\tools\\opencv\\build\\x64\\vc15\\bin"
  }

I have installed OpenCV version 4.1.2 with the following command choco install OpenCV -y -version 4.1.2 My environmental variables look like this

OPENCV_INCLUDE_DIR = C:\tools\opencv\build\include
OPENCV_LIB_DIR = C:\tools\opencv\build\x64\vc15\lib
OPENCV_BIN_DIR = C:\tools\opencv\build\x64\vc15\bin

and i have appended %OPENCV_BIN_DIR% to Path My npm install passes successfully, and the issues come when i try to run electron rebuild with the following script

"electron-rebuild": "electron-rebuild -w opencv4nodejs" Initially i had the error that it cound not find opencv2/core.hpp but i have fixed that by adding the following lines to the binding.gyp file located in node_modules/opencv4nodejs

"include_dirs" : [
    "C:\\tools\\opencv\\build\\include"
    "<!@(node ./install/parseEnv.js OPENCV4NODEJS_INCLUDES)",
    "cc",
    "cc/core",
    "<!(node -e \"require('nan')\")",
    "<!(node -e \"require('native-node-utils')\")"
],
'link_settings': {
    'libraries': [
        '-lopencv_world412.lib'
     ],
    'library_dirs': [
         '"C:\\tools\\opencv\\build\\x64\\vc15\\lib',
    ],
},

Now the rebuild starts but at some point i get the error

/ Building module: opencv4nodejs, Completed: 0LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'uiAccess='false' \manifest:embed \DEBUG \PDB:D:\Projects\TE\plain-js\node_modules\opencv4nodejs\build\Release\opencv4nodejs.pdb' [D:\Projects\TE\plain-js\node_modules\opencv4nodejs\build\opencv4nodejs.vcxproj]
× Rebuild Failed

Before running the rebuild script i have noticed that in the directory build\Release are the following files but when i get the specified error i only have an obj folder. What am i doing wrong and what should be changed in order the electron-build to finish successfully?

Thank you for your time!

[stoefln]

Your errors don't look familiar to me. However, I managed to package opencv4nodejs 5.2.0 with electron 5.0.6. I used a script to fix and include the dependencies to system libraries which were linked by opencv libraries. I don't know if that's the right way to do it, but it worked. Contact me if you think I can be of help.

[BarryCarlyon]

Your solution only fixes for Darwin/mac OP and I are having issues with Windows.

For me, I got it to bundle into the installer, but on install it can't find the deps. So a little more gnarly

[stoefln]

Check out this project, it works for win and mac: https://github.com/fakob/MoviePrint_v004 For windows a simple dll copy instruction in the package.json helped in my case.