spawn dist/electron.exe ENOENT about rebuild HOT 15 CLOSED

I had a similar problem on OSX (same error, different executable of course).
OSX 10.10.5 / OSX 10.11.1
Node.js 5.0.0 / 5.1.0

Worked around it by changing node_modules/electron-rebuild/lib/spawn.js

Around line 25, there is this code:

  return new _Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
    var error = null;
    //console.log("Calling spawn! " + JSON.stringify(options));
    var proc = _child_process2['default'].spawn(options.cmd, options.args, options.opts);

Changed it to provide the cwd (current working directory) to the spawn command

  return new _Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
    var error = null;
    if (!('cwd' in options.opts)) {
        options.opts.cwd = process.cwd() + '/node_modules/electron-prebuilt';
    }
    //console.log("Calling spawn! " + JSON.stringify(options));
    var proc = _child_process2['default'].spawn(options.cmd, options.args, options.opts);

I'm sure this isn't the way to go (as the paths on various OS's will differ), hence I haven't made a pull request.

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@rspieker - thank you for your advice - for me your fix is working 👍

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switch to npm 2 can temporary solution to the problem

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Had the same problem on OSX and tried rspieker's change. Now getting:

Cannot find module 'npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp'
Error: Cannot find module 'npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.require.resolve (module.js:389:19)
at installNodeHeaders$ (/Users/steve/Desktop/electron/node_modules/electron-rebuild/lib/main.js:166:25)
at tryCatch (/Users/steve/Desktop/electron/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:72:40)
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke as _invoke
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) as throw
at tryCatch (/Users/steve/Desktop/electron/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:72:40)
at invoke (/Users/steve/Desktop/electron/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:146:20)
at /Users/steve/Desktop/electron/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:156:13
at run (/Users/steve/Desktop/electron/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:104:47)

with node v5.1.1 and npm 3.3.12. Tired installing node-gyp without luck.

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I am having the same issue as @stevedekorte. Installing node-gyp also did not fix the issue for me.

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BTW, I realized that only 15 lines of code is required to build native modules — https://github.com/develar/onshape-desktop-shell/blob/master/build/util.js#L12-L27

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I was able to resolve my problem by doing a complete removal and re-install of node/npm.

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@stevedekorte What steps did you take to remove and reinstall? Did you reinstall node 5.3? I have uninstalled/reinstalled using brew and nvm and am still getting the same error as above.

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Sometimes, electron_prebuilt is not installed correctly and the path.txt file is not updated correctly fix the full absolute path but with the relative path.

A quick fix is to either clean npm cache and reinstall electron-prebuilt or to update path.txt with the absolute path.

The normal fix is to makes electron-rebuild works also with relative path. I made a pull request

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Reinstalling electron_prebuilt, clearing the npm cache, and setting the absolute path in path.txt fixed the issue for me, thanks for the help!

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Thank you @rspieker. Worked for me too

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No combination of reinstalling, clearing npm's cache, or editing the path.txt file work for me.

MacOS 10.11.3
npm 2.14.12
node 4.2.6
electron-prebuilt 0.36.4

My path.txt file contains:

dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron

I've tried modifying that to an absolute path:

/Users/tom/projects/xde/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron

And to a project-relative path:

./node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron

But electron-prebuilt throws a fatal error at startup unless I use the original path. Here's the error:

{ [Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c npm start
events.js:141
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /Users/tom/projects/xde/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
    at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:441:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:17)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:444:11)
    at startup (node.js:136:18)
    at node.js:966:3

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You might want to make sure you wipe any bash or shell path references to node/npm as well.

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@tomprogers I don't think this is a bug related to electron-rebuild

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@tomprogers

But electron-prebuilt throws a fatal error at startup unless I use the original path

Why don't you use the original path ?

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