Please provide CPU agnostic binaries of the native module.

[egandro]

There are some bugs with this:

microsoft/vscode-arduino#1207
#124

The main issue is an architecture specific module:

node_modules/usb-detection/build/Release $ file detection.node 

detection.node: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=97745d38cf6d793b9fbccd3dbbc5dae6ad88c705, stripped

I don't really know how to handle this. In an enterprise enviornment we would go with a build farm, that is creating binaries for

• Linux (x86_64, x86?, arm64, armv7l)
• macOS (x86_64, arm)
• Windows?

No idea how we should deal with an Opensource project.

I guess - as Microsoft has an issue with this on VS Code for arm, too - you might get help. @adiazulay is the maintainer of the Arduino Plugin for VS Code.

Maybe we can just ripp the npm in parts? (make linux-x86_64 default and let the community deal with their archs)

• node-usb-detection-driver-linux-x86
• node-usb-detection-driver-linux-arm64
• node-usb-detection-driver-linux-armv7l
• ...

Within the specific driver you provide a getVersion() and this must match the the main implementation?

[todbot]

This library requires OS-specific bindings compiled for a specific architecture, so I'm not sure what you mean by "CPU agnostic binaries"? As a convenience, the maintainers offer "prebuilds" of the bindings for the most common architectures. It sounds like what you're asking is to provide architecture-specific prebuilds for additional architectures? I don't understand what you're asking.

[MadLittleMods]

It's also unclear to me what your question is and what you're asking for.

Maybe you're looking for a rewrite with the N-API and make the code context-aware? There is a open PR for that but still needs some work: #127

[egandro]

This library requires OS-specific bindings compiled for a specific architecture, so I'm not sure what you mean by "CPU agnostic binaries"?

Provide these binaries :) In electron apps - e.g. like VS the plugin is not recompiled if it is bundled.

[MadLittleMods]

@egandro There are already prebuild binaries for Electron, see https://github.com/MadLittleMods/node-usb-detection/releases/tag/v4.10.0 for example with the whole list.

Those are automatically used when you're installing the library (npm install usb-detection). If it's not using one of those binaries already for you, which one is missing for your platform? (Which version of Electron? What OS? etc)