Module did not self-register (Windows Server 2012)

[deathgrindfreak]

I'm having a bit of trouble getting better-sqlite3 to run with my electron app. From what I've seen in a few places, they've suggested that the better_sqlite3.node is missing a .dll file somewhere, but after messing around with it a bit, it doesn't seem to help (adding .dlls that is). This is happening when I'm running the mocha tests by the way, so it should be occurring when the module is first required.

Also, I should mention that I've received the "Error: The specified module could not be found." error as well, if that helps at all.

PS E:\omega-electron> yarn run build
yarn run v1.5.1
$ project-core build --outdir=app
[info] clean
[info] assemble:copy
[info] assemble:source
[info] test:run
E:\omega-electron\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:88
throw e
^

Error: Module did not self-register.
at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:672:18)
at Module.load (module.js:556:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:499:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:491:3)
at Module.require (module.js:587:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at bindings (E:\omega-electron\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:81:44)
at Object. (E:\omega-electron\node_modules\better-sqlite3\lib\database.js:4:40)
at Module._compile (module.js:643:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:654:10)
at Module.load (module.js:556:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:499:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:491:3)
at Module.require (module.js:587:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object. (E:\omega-electron\node_modules\better-sqlite3\index.js:2:18)
at Module._compile (module.js:643:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:654:10)

[JoshuaWise]

Electron is quite the beast. Almost all issues that come up with installing better-sqlite3 are with people using Electron on Windows, and each time it seems to be something different. Personally I don't use Electron so I've relied on the community to resolve those issues as they come up, which has been productive so far. I haven't seen this particular issue, but it appears to be saying that something went wrong during the compilation process, so my advice is to rm -rf node_modules and rm package-lock.json (or any other lock files you have) and try reinstalling.

If you or someone else is able to resolve the issue please post it here so others with the same problem can be helped.

[deathgrindfreak]

Sounds good, I appreciate the reply. Personally I'm not a fan of electron, but have to use it for work unfortunately :(

[JoshuaWise]

closed in favor of #126