Okay I see this is a known problem with electron https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/6138 I'll continue my search over there. I thought since electron is based on node.js it should work from inside it.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Stefan Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems like because it is called through electron and not through node.js > it tries to look in the wrong folder for the extension binary! > > Expected directory: electron-v1.8-linux-x64-glibc > Found: [node-v57-linux-x64-glibc] > This problem can often be fixed by running "npm rebuild" on the current > system > Original error: Cannot find module '/home/stefan/Work/ElectroNGL/ > node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/electron-v1. > 8-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node' > > But this folder doesn't exist. Would I be able to force it to look for it > in node-v57-linux-x64-glibc? > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Stefan Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Same problem actually if I move the require('grpc') inside of main.js >> >> ``` >> main.js >> >> 'use strict'; >> var grpc = require('grpc'); >> const electron = require('electron'); >> ``` >> >> Throws the same error >> >> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Stefan Doerr <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Sure. I tried using it through Electron. So I just start the main.js >>> with electron and get the error in the js console. >>> >>> ``` >>> main.js >>> >>> 'use strict'; >>> >>> const electron = require('electron'); >>> const app = electron.app; >>> const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow; >>> >>> require('electron-debug')({showDevTools: true}); >>> >>> var mainWindow = null; >>> >>> app.on('ready', function() { >>> mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({ >>> height: 600, >>> width: 800, >>> }); >>> >>> mainWindow.loadURL('file://' + __dirname + '/app/webapp.html'); >>> mainWindow.setMenu(null); >>> }); >>> ``` >>> >>> ``` >>> webapp.html >>> >>> <!DOCTYPE html> >>> <html lang="en"> >>> <head> >>> <title>webapp</title> >>> <meta charset="utf-8"> >>> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, >>> minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"> >>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.min.css" /> >>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" /> >>> <link rel="subresource" href="css/light.css" /> >>> <link rel="subresource" href="css/dark.css" /> >>> </head> >>> <body> >>> <!-- Insert this line above script imports --> >>> <script>if (typeof module === 'object') {window.module = module; module >>> = undefined;}</script> >>> >>> <!-- normal script imports etc --> >>> <!-- NGL --> >>> <script src="dist/ngl.js"></script> >>> >>> <!-- UI --> >>> <script src="js/lib/signals.min.js"></script> >>> <script src="js/lib/tether.min.js"></script> >>> <script src="js/lib/colorpicker.min.js"></script> >>> <script src="js/ui/ui.js"></script> >>> <script src="js/ui/ui.extra.js"></script> >>> <script src="js/ui/ui.ngl.js"></script> >>> <script src="js/gui.js"></script> >>> >>> <!-- Insert this line after script imports --> >>> <script>if (window.module) module = window.module;</script> >>> </body> >>> <script> >>> >>> //var PROTO_PATH = __dirname + '/../communication.proto'; >>> var PROTO_PATH = '../communication.proto'; >>> var grpc = require('grpc'); >>> var hello_proto = grpc.load(PROTO_PATH).helloworld; >>> >>> /** >>> * Implements the SayHello RPC method. >>> */ >>> function sayHello(call, callback) { >>> callback(null, {message: 'Hello ' + call.request.name}); >>> } >>> >>> /** >>> * Starts an RPC server that receives requests for the Greeter >>> service at the >>> * sample server port >>> */ >>> function main() { >>> var server = new grpc.Server(); >>> server.addService(hello_proto.Greeter.service, {sayHello: >>> sayHello}); >>> server.bind('0.0.0.0:50051', grpc.ServerCredentials.createI >>> nsecure()); >>> server.start(); >>> } >>> >>> main(); >>> console.log('Started server?') >>> </script> >>> </html> >>> ``` >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 12:40 AM, Spencer Fang <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Can you share the commands you ran that led to this error? >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:41 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I am trying to use gRPC for the first time but I am getting following >>>>> error: >>>>> >>>>> Uncaught Error: Failed to load gRPC binary module because it was not >>>>> installed for the current system >>>>> Expected directory: electron-v1.8-linux-x64-glibc >>>>> Found: [node-v57-linux-x64-glibc] >>>>> This problem can often be fixed by running "npm rebuild" on the >>>>> current system >>>>> Original error: Cannot find module '/home/stefan/Work/myproj/node >>>>> _modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/electron-v1.8-linux- >>>>> x64-glibc/grpc_node.node' >>>>> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stefan/Work/myproj/node >>>>> _modules/grpc/src/grpc_extension.js:53:17) >>>>> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stefan/Work/myproj/node >>>>> _modules/grpc/src/grpc_extension.js:63:3) >>>>> at Module._compile (module.js:569:30) >>>>> at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10) >>>>> at Module.load (module.js:503:32) >>>>> at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12) >>>>> at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3) >>>>> at Module.require (module.js:513:17) >>>>> at require (internal/module.js:11:18) >>>>> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stefan/Work/ElectroNGL/ >>>>> node_modules/grpc/src/client.js:37:12) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I checked and my node.js version should be supported >>>>> $ node --version >>>>> v8.9.3 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Could you help me out with this? 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