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node.jsnpmelectron
aturc
aturc

Reputation: 1307

Error running Electron

I succesfully had the electron GUI running for testing my app, including the electron hello world application that they have here: http://electron.atom.io/docs/tutorial/quick-start/

Now however whenever I type the command: npm start in the command line I get this error (even when just trying to set up the hello world example again):

12 error Windows_NT 6.1.7601
13 error argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
14 error node v4.4.4
15 error npm  v2.15.1
16 error code ELIFECYCLE
17 error [email protected] start: `electron main.js`
17 error Exit status 3221225781
18 error Failed at the [email protected] start script 'electron main.js'.
18 error This is most likely a problem with the electron-quick-start package,
18 error not with npm itself.
18 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
18 error     electron main.js
18 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
18 error     npm bugs electron-quick-start
18 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
18 error
18 error     npm owner ls electron-quick-start
18 error There is likely additional logging output above.

Also one instance of an electron app I set up previously still works when I call npm start.

I would like to be able to setup new apps, partially because my original one doesn't have the correct folder structure.

So using npm list --depth 1 I went to both the folders with both the working electron app, and the not working electron app. Both show [email protected] as being present. Although using npm list -g shows that electron-prebuilt is not installed globally, perhaps that would be a good idea?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2862

Answers (1)

Vadim Macagon
Vadim Macagon

Reputation: 14847

Update Electron to v1.1.1 (npm install electron-prebuilt@latest --save-dev) and that should hopefully solve your issue (which is probably that you're missing the VC++2015 runtime). Installing electron-prebuilt globally isn't going to fix anything.

Upvotes: 4

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