Installs but doesn't run Windows 10 x64

[CrimsonVex]

The example starter project runs fine, but I do not want to use webpack for my own project. So in my project, after running npm i @nodegui/nodegui (log here), when I try to run my project using node index.js I get this error:

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1208
  return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
                 ^

Error: The specified module could not be found.
\\?\C:\Users\user\Documents\project\node_modules\@nodegui\nodegui\build\Release\nodegui_core.node
�[90m    at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1208:18)�[39m
�[90m    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1002:32)�[39m
�[90m    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:901:14)�[39m
�[90m    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1044:19)�[39m
�[90m    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:77:18)�[39m
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\user\Documents\project\node_modules\�[4m@nodegui�[24m\nodegui\dist\lib\utils\addon.js:3:15)
�[90m    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1158:30)�[39m
�[90m    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1178:10)�[39m
�[90m    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1002:32)�[39m
�[90m    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:901:14)�[39m

The code I'm running:

const { QMainWindow } = require("@nodegui/nodegui");

const win = new QMainWindow();
win.show();

global.win = win;

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 x64 build 18363
• NodeGUI version 0.16.0

[a7ul]

Hi
The erroor looks like the native module for nodegui didnt build correctly.

You can either
re-install the @nodegui/nodegui after deleteing node_modules

or

cd node_modules/@nodegui/nodegui
npm run build:addon

This will build the nodegui_core.node native addon file. @Sasstraliss

Although your logs do show that it was built correctly.

Secondly,
you are supposed to use @nodegui/qode to run the project instead of node.

So you should replace node index.js with qode index.js

[Solant]

I had the same issue on win10, nodegui/packer#35

TLDR: just update visual c redistributable to the latest version here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

update: I used visual c++ redistributable 2019 to fix this issue, so you can use the same version

[JeffMII]

#937 I posted a new issue with this answer to hopefully help people on Windows

This post is a couple years old so maybe my solution doesn't apply to this instance, but I was getting the same error after installing nodegui and tried to simply run:

import gui from '@nodegui/nodegui'

const win = new gui.QMainWindow()
win.show()

global.win = win

The solution I found was to run npx qode index.js. I was initially running node index.js and then I found out I needed to run qode index.js but qode isn't recognized, so I tried npx qode index.js and it worked. Hope this helps someone.