javascriptnode.jssqlitenode-gypbetter-sqlite3

Error: Could not locate the bindings file better-sqlite3.node


The Problem

There are some problem with maybe my installation of better-sqlite3 because when I try to execute my index.js (click to show it on pastebin) with

node index.js

there is always the same result. I tried on MacOS, it works but in my machine Linux Lite Ubuntu based distro aren't it gave me the following same error:

/home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:96
  throw err
  ^

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Release/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Release/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/default/better_sqlite3.node
 → /home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/compiled/8.11.3/linux/x64/better_sqlite3.node
    at bindings (/home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:93:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/lib/database.js:4:40)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite/node_modules/better-sqlite3/index.js:2:18)

What is my purpose?

I want to use better-sqlie33 as my database because sqlite3 doesn't gave the node 8.x and later support.

What I tried:

  1. This trouble shooting guide number one and two, but I still had the same error.

  2. make init, first installed better-sqlite3 gave me the error file make/makefile not found. I got the same error when I do npm install better-sqlite3 --save

  3. Make sure better_sqlite3.node are on my node-modules path. yeah it isn't there.

What I want?

I want to run my index.js correctly like I ran it on Mac.

Dependecies

package.json after make init, if not it just a better-sqlite3 dependencies

{
  "_from": "better-sqlite3",
  "_id": "better-sqlite3@4.1.4",
  "_inBundle": false,
  "_integrity": "sha512-Y11HN9PQ9YUeKFMrmiHyOLAKElk2ATJzBZJvuzNwTMxoS7vUEEyLnUCtcBFqViLwbomr0RQwp2MBy/ogxF50PA==",
  "_location": "/better-sqlite3",
  "_phantomChildren": {},
  "_requested": {
    "type": "tag",
    "registry": true,
    "raw": "better-sqlite3",
    "name": "better-sqlite3",
    "escapedName": "better-sqlite3",
    "rawSpec": "",
    "saveSpec": null,
    "fetchSpec": "latest"
  },
  "_requiredBy": [
    "#USER",
    "/"
  ],
  "_resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/better-sqlite3/-/better-sqlite3-4.1.4.tgz",
  "_shasum": "9fe1dcf7b699087b98b1997cbb00261e265897e2",
  "_spec": "better-sqlite3",
  "_where": "/home/mp8/webproject/electron-better-sqlite",
  "author": {
    "name": "Joshua Wise",
    "email": "joshuathomaswise@gmail.com"
  },
  "bugs": {
    "url": "https://github.com/JoshuaWise/better-sqlite3/issues"
  },
  "bundleDependencies": false,
  "dependencies": {
    "bindings": "^1.3.0",
    "integer": "^1.0.5"
  },
  "deprecated": false,
  "description": "The fastest and simplest library for SQLite3 in Node.js.",
  "devDependencies": {
    "benchmark": "^2.1.4",
    "chai": "^4.1.2",
    "cli-color": "^1.2.0",
    "fs-extra": "^5.0.0",
    "mocha": "^4.1.0",
    "sqlite": "^2.9.0"
  },
  "gypfile": true,
  "homepage": "http://github.com/JoshuaWise/better-sqlite3",
  "keywords": [
    "sql",
    "sqlite",
    "sqlite3",
    "custom",
    "aggregate",
    "database",
    "transactions"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "name": "better-sqlite3",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git://github.com/JoshuaWise/better-sqlite3.git"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "benchmark": "node benchmark",
    "install": "node-gyp rebuild",
    "install-debug": "node-gyp rebuild --debug",
    "lzz": "lzz -hx hpp -sx cpp -k BETTER_SQLITE3 -d -hl -sl -e ./src/better_sqlite3.lzz",
    "posttest": "rm -r ./temp/",
    "prepublishOnly": "npm run lzz",
    "pretest": "rm -r ./temp/ || true && mkdir ./temp/",
    "rebuild": "npm run lzz && node-gyp rebuild",
    "rebuild-debug": "npm run lzz && node-gyp rebuild --debug",
    "test": "$(npm bin)/mocha --bail --timeout 5000 --slow 5000"
  },
  "version": "4.1.4"
}

my machine

Linux Lite 4.0, Ubuntu Based.
NVM (Node version Manager)
Node 8.11.1
NPM 5.6

Solution

  • I had a problem that looks like your problem

    just try that:

    projectToto > $ sudo rm -rf node_modules/

    projectToto > $ npm install bindings

    npm about binding -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/bindings