No native build found for Electron

[BryanHunt]

SerialPort Version

13.0.0

Node Version

22.14.0

Electron Version

35.0.1

Platform

Darwin Bryans-MacBook-Pro-9.local 24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:16 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Architecture

ARM

Hardware or chipset of serialport

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Create a new project with ElectronForge
Add code to list the serial ports
Start the application

What happens?

App threw an error during load
Error: No native build was found for platform=darwin arch=arm64 runtime=electron abi=133 uv=1 armv=8 libc=glibc node=22.14.0 electron=35.0.1
loaded from: /Users/bhunt/Development/Experimental/electron/.vite

at load.resolve.load.path (/Users/bhunt/Development/Experimental/electron/.vite/build/main.js:2569:11)
at load (/Users/bhunt/Development/Experimental/electron/.vite/build/main.js:2537:33)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/bhunt/Development/Experimental/electron/.vite/build/main.js:2701:59)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1569:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1722:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1296:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1115:12)
at c._load (node:electron/js2c/node_init:2:18008)
at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:227:24)

What should have happened?

Application should have displayed the list of serial ports

Additional information

I've tried several incantations of rebuild, but I can't seem to get it to work.

[BryanHunt]

It appears the solution to this problem is to declare serialport as external to vite. Here is my vite.main.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";

export default defineConfig({
  build: {
    rollupOptions: {
      external: ["serialport"], // Mark serialport as external
    },
  },
});

[joey-wang97]

Same question, But your solution is not work for me.

It appears the solution to this problem is to declare serialport as external to vite. Here is my vite.main.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";

export default defineConfig({
build: {
rollupOptions: {
external: ["serialport"], // Mark serialport as external
},
},
});

[joey-wang97]

any help?

[joey-wang97]

Just found solution for my electron+vite project! Found this in vite-plugin-electron-renderer

import renderer from 'vite-plugin-electron-renderer'

export default {
  plugins: [
    renderer({
      resolve: {
        // C/C++ modules must be pre-bundle
        serialport: { type: 'cjs' },
        // `esm` modules only if Vite does not pre-bundle them correctly
        got: { type: 'esm' },
      },
    }),
  ],
}