Hi everyone. I need to use canvas package in my plugin that has binary dependencies. The plugin builds just fine, however running strapi develop (through yarn) results in this error:
Error: Could not load js config file C:\Users\xtul\source\repos\gmc-backend\src\plugins\certificate-manager\dist\strapi-server.js: error: 127\\?\C:\Users\xtul\source\repos\gmc-backend\src\plugins\certificate-manager\node_modules\canvas\build\Release\canvas.node
at loadJsFile (C:\Users\xtul\source\repos\gmc-backend\node_modules\@strapi\strapi\dist\core\app-configuration\load-config-file.js:19:13)
...
I managed to get to the actual call stack and it’s:
Error: error: 127\\?\C:\Users\xtul\source\repos\gmc-backend\src\plugins\certificate-manager\node_modules\canvas\build\Release\canvas.node
at Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1465:18)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1206:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1022:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1231:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\xtul\source\repos\gmc-backend\src\plugins\certificate-manager\node_modules\canvas\lib\bindings.js:3:18)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1369:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1427:10)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1022:12)
So basically node not being able to read that binary file or it’s dependencies… but the plugin itself has no problems building.
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