electron example fails

[andreiamatuni]

• Version: master
• Platform: macOS
• Subsystem: whatever uses fs-ext

Type:

Bug

Severity:

Medium

Description:

electron example fails due to fs-ext native module

Steps to reproduce the error:

running run-in-electron example, and starting with npm start

produces this error:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: __ZN2v816FunctionTemplate3NewEPNS_7IsolateEPFvRKNS_20FunctionCallbackInfoINS_5ValueEEEENS_5LocalIS4_EENSA_INS_9SignatureEEEiNS_19ConstructorBehaviorENS_14SideEffectTypeE
  Referenced from: /Users/andrei/code/third_party/js-ipfs/examples/run-in-electron/node_modules/fs-ext/build/Release/fs-ext.node
  Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: __ZN2v816FunctionTemplate3NewEPNS_7IsolateEPFvRKNS_20FunctionCallbackInfoINS_5ValueEEEENS_5LocalIS4_EENSA_INS_9SignatureEEEiNS_19ConstructorBehaviorENS_14SideEffectTypeE
  Referenced from: /Users/andrei/code/third_party/js-ipfs/examples/run-in-electron/node_modules/fs-ext/build/Release/fs-ext.node
  Expected in: flat namespace

[victorb]

Could you paste the output of npm version here?

[andreiamatuni]

{ npm: '6.4.1',
  ares: '1.14.0',
  cldr: '33.1',
  http_parser: '2.8.0',
  icu: '62.1',
  modules: '64',
  napi: '3',
  nghttp2: '1.33.0',
  node: '10.10.0',
  openssl: '1.1.0i',
  tz: '2018e',
  unicode: '11.0',
  uv: '1.23.0',
  v8: '6.8.275.30-node.24',
  zlib: '1.2.11' }

[patrick-ogrady]

Any update here? I am also getting this issue. but the reference is to

Referenced from: /Users/patrickogrady/code/CS191W/simple-recommender/node_modules/secp256k1/build/Release/secp256k1.node
  Expected in: flat namespace

[alanshaw]

To clarify, this occurs when upgrading the example to use electron 3

[alanshaw]

Tracking for this issue has moved here #2011