binding-cpp not building Mac (V10.4.0)

[Edig]

SerialPort Version

10.4.0

Node Version

16.13.1

Electron Version

17.1.2

Platform

Mac - Monterey (12.3)

What steps will reproduce the bug?

npx electron-builder -w with

"devDependencies": {
    "electron": "^17.1.2",
    "electron-builder": "21.2",
    "electron-builder-squirrel-windows": "^22.14.12",
    "electron-rebuild": "^3.2.7"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@electron/remote": "^2.0.8",
    "bootbox": "^5.5.2",
    "bootstrap": "^4.5.3",
    "electron-is-dev": "^2.0.0",
    "electron-log": "^4.3.1",
    "electron-pos-printer": "^1.2.4",
    "electron-simple-updater": "^2.0.9",
    "electron-updater": "^4.6.5",
    "install": "^0.13.0",
    "jquery": "^3.5.1",
    "jsbarcode": "^3.11.3",
    "mysql": "^2.18.1",
    "node-thermal-printer": "^4.1.2",
    "pdf-to-printer": "^5.3.0",
    "popper.js": "^1.16.1",
    "serialport": "^10.4.0"
  }

What happens?

When I update to V10.4.0 it change from binding to binding-cpp and when building for windows it sticks in. • rebuilding native dependencies dependencies=@serialport/[email protected] platform=win32 arch=x64

How to patch it

I manage to fix it, by changing "@serialport/bindings-cpp": "10.7.0" to "@serialport/bindings": "10.0.1" in package.json of serialport.

Note: V10.0.1 can be build, but when you run it, it says "Serialport is not a constructor" you need to upgrade minimum to 10.0.2 and after that version, the binding change to cpp

[askie]

+1

[obur-app]

+1

[shenzhuxi]

I also have this problem with electron-builder on Raspberry Pi. Electron-builder has no problem to build other native modules like https://github.com/fivdi/i2c-bus with package.json like

  "scripts": {
    ...
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
  },

I wonder if it's because serialport/bindings-cpp provided prebuilts/linux-arm/ and other platforms like Mac, so electron-builder won't consider it's necessary to build it from source.

To work around, I just "rm -f node_modules/@serialport" and "npm install serialport --build-from-source".

I also tried electron-rebuild. It created build/Release/.forge-meta but didn't build anything.

[GazHank]

per https://github.com/serialport/node-serialport/issues/2619 cross building using electron-builder should now work correctly in electron-builder 24.5.1