Native node (ZeroMQ) module problems with webpack template

[delewis13]

Issue Details

Electron Forge Version: 6.0.0-beta.47
Electron Version: v7.1.9
Operating System: macOS 10.14.6
Last Known Working Electron Forge version: Unknown

Expected Behavior

App should start without error.

Actual Behavior

Attempting to use zeroMQ (https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq.js/) with electron-forge webpack template.

App fails to start reporting:

Error: No native build was found for platform=darwin arch=x64 runtime=electron abi=75 uv=1 libc=glibc

To Reproduce

(1) Instantiate new electron app with webpack template
yarn create electron-app my-new-app --template=webpack

(2) Install zeroMQ
yarn add zeromq

(3) Import zeroMQ in main.js
const zmq = require('zeromq')

(4) Start app
yarn start

Additional Information

If the same steps are followed as above but without --template=webpack, no issues are encountered. As such, problem appears to be with the webpack template.

[stefan-pdx]

I've come across this same issue. I've tried rebuilding zmq with:

electron-rebuild -f -w zeromq

and

cd node_modules/zeromq
HOME=~/.electron-gyp node-gyp rebuild --target=7.1.10 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers

but still have the same issue with No native build was found for....

[stefan-pdx]

I was able to work around this by specifying 5.1.1 of the zeromq package instead of the 6.0 beta. See zeromq/zeromq.js#338 for details

[dstudzinski]

I had similar problems with leveldown. I think it's related to: #703

I still have this problem with 6.0.0-beta.51 and [email protected] (with webpack and webpack-typescript templates). I was able to fix native modules problem by:

Replacing @marshallofsound/[email protected] with @zeit/[email protected]

and replacing in webpack.rules.js rules:

loader: '@marshallofsound/webpack-asset-relocator-loader',

with

loader: '@zeit/webpack-asset-relocator-loader',

But now I have problem with renderer:

Html Webpack Plugin:
  Error: /project/src/index.html:82
  /******/  __webpack_require__.ab = __dirname + "/assets/";
                                     ^
  ReferenceError: __dirname is not defined

It looks like problem with @marshallofsound/[email protected] (fork is too old?) or maybe something was changed in webpack in electron-forge (related to ASSET_RELOCATOR_BASE_DIR variable)?