Unable to use native Windows library in NodeJS

Question

I am trying to write a simple Electron app that uses Windows native notifications. For this use I depend on electron-windows-interactive-notifications.

When I run npm install and after that electron-rebuild on my project I get:

App threw an error during load
Error: The specified module could not be found.
\\?\C:\Users\moro\projects\tw-en-ty\node_modules\electron-windows-interactive-notifications\build\Release\notifications_bindings.node
    at Error (native)
    at process.module.(anonymous function) [as dlopen] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:583:18)
    at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as .node] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at bindings (C:\Users\moro\projects\tw-en-ty\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:76:44)

According to a NodeJS issue it can be a native dependency problem. When I examine notifications_bindings.node by dependencywalker I see following missing direct DLLs (among many missing nested):

Frankly I have no idea what the problem is:

• wrong usage of Electron?
• wrong usage of electron-windows-interactive-notifications?
• problem in NodeRT?
• problem in node-gyp?
• problem in my environment?

Can you help me move a step closer to the problem resolution?

Thank you very much!

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Answer 1

Try following:

• Install MS Visual Studio first.
• npm install --global windows-build-tools run as Administrator
• Run electron rebuild .\node_modules\.bin\electron-rebuild.cmd

Alternate method:

• cd node_modules\electron-windows-interactive-notifications
• node-gyp rebuild --target=1.8.4 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron where 1.8.4 is electron version