Incompatible with electron 4 and later?

[TanninOne]

Incompatible with electron 4 and later?

[SpaceK33z]

I can reproduce this too with https://github.com/2bbb/node-abletonlink. It works perfectly fine on macOS, but on Windows crashes with "Module did not self-register."

[TanninOne]

I think I found a fix, although I don't 100% understand it.

Merge this into your bindings.json

{
    "targets": [
        {
            "conditions": [
                [
                    'OS=="win"',
                    {
                        "libraries": [
                            "-DelayLoad:node.exe"
                        ],

So essentially adding the linker flag "/DelayLoad:node.exe".

This apparently allows electron.exe to take the place of node.exe when the native library loads symbols from it.
Why I don't have to do that for all the other native libraries I have no clue.

[SpaceK33z]

Thanks so much @TanninOne, this workaround worked!

[TanninOne]

Another related thing I just found out and still don't fully understand:
I was getting crashes when using c++ streams in a nbind extension running in electron.

After quite a bit of bumbling about what seems to be causing it is that the c++ runtime functions are now also delay loaded and for reasons I don't know it seems to try and load those function from the electron.exe instead of the proper runtime dlls.

Only solution I have so far is forcing the runtime to be linked statically.