Native compilation doesn't happen if the package is using prebuilt (eg leveldown)

[cosmosgenius]

electron-builder@5.22.2

OSX el capitan x64

My app directory package.json has a dependency to leveldown 1.4.0. Since leveldown is natively compiled, I was expecting install-app-deps to compile with electron-prebuilt deps on dev package.json. While installing leveldown, it uses prebuilt to download native binary instead of compiling.

Passing --build-from-source as args in the doSpawn function fixes the issues and compile with the correct version.

[cosmosgenius]

Is there any update on this? or is there some option which can force a rebuild in such cases?

[develar]

Is it possible to attach sample project?

[cosmosgenius]

sample project https://github.com/cosmosgenius/electron-leveldb

[cosmosgenius]

What i am doing currently is modifying the npmExecArgs variable in spawnNpmProduction by adding --build-from-source to args list. Is there anyway to passing this args to install-app-deps? That would solve this issue.

[develar]

Thanks for clear explanation and sample project. --build-from-source added by default.