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    • KristjanESPERANTOK Offline
      KristjanESPERANTO Module Developer @sdetweil
      last edited by KristjanESPERANTO

      Yes, but @electron/rebuild is the successor of electron-rebuild. And the “trick” in the postinstall script seems not necessary at all.

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      • wishmaster270W Offline
        wishmaster270 Module Developer @KristjanESPERANTO
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        @KristjanESPERANTO

        Hi and thank you for contributing. I confirm that changing to magicmirror-rebuild did not make things batter but worse. I now followed the suggestion of @sdetweil and implemented his postinstall script. Things are working perfectly now and should work in future releases, too.

        I merged the new changes to the master a few minutes ago and released version 0.0.7 of MMM-GPIO-Notifications. I will implement this approach in my other modules, too.

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        • KristjanESPERANTOK Offline
          KristjanESPERANTO Module Developer @wishmaster270
          last edited by KristjanESPERANTO

          @wishmaster270 OK, you’re welcome.

          Since the thread is also for other developers: I recommend considering my approach, as I consider the other approach (installing to a higher-level directory) to be more error-prone. But it’s a creative workaround.

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          • wishmaster270W Offline
            wishmaster270 Module Developer @KristjanESPERANTO
            last edited by wishmaster270

            @KristjanESPERANTO
            The problem with installing it in the module directory is that we need to compile the library against the electron version installed in the MagicMirror project.
            If electron-rebuild is installed in the module directory it might fail to detect the right electron version (which was the cause of the rebuild problems in the past).
            So the right way is to install electron-rebuild in the same project as electron and call it from there.

            It might be worth to think about adding it as a dependency in the main project.

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            • KristjanESPERANTOK Offline
              KristjanESPERANTO Module Developer @wishmaster270
              last edited by KristjanESPERANTO

              @wishmaster270 Okay, thanks for the explanation! I haven’t been able to read that anywhere in such clear words and I haven’t dealt with the past problems. Then I withdraw my recommendation because I lack the overview.

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                sdetweil @KristjanESPERANTO
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                @KristjanESPERANTO ah I see

                haven’t heard of @electron/rebuild

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                  karsten13 @wishmaster270
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                  @wishmaster270 said in electron-rebuild problems with MagicMirror 2.22.0:

                  So the right way is to install electron-rebuild in the same project as electron and call it from there.

                  installing module stuff in the node_modules folder of mm is a hack and will not work out of the box with a docker setup because this folder is only in the container (you have to map it on the host to get changes there persistent)

                  It might be worth to think about adding it as a dependency in the main project.

                  in this case may the best solution

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                    sdetweil @karsten13
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                    @karsten13 yes, that’s what I think we come to but doesn’t help any existing broken modules

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                      sdetweil @karsten13
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                      @karsten13 docker is a pita with this stuff. too much/not enough in the container. which is supposed to be immutable.

                      Sam

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                      • KristjanESPERANTOK Offline
                        KristjanESPERANTO Module Developer @sdetweil
                        last edited by KristjanESPERANTO

                        @sdetweil As a soft step, the broken modules could switch to @electron/rebuild. This should also work for docker.

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