Headless GL does not work on Windows Azure App Service

[RonanVonkVW]

There seem to be no pre-built binaries available that meet the requirements on a Windows based Azure Web Service.

npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=14.16.0 runtime=node arch=ia32 libc= platform=win32)
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files (x86)\npm\6.14.11\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:277:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.14393
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\14.16.0\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\npm\\6.14.11\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\home\site\wwwroot\node_modules\gl
gyp ERR! node -v v14.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! gl@4.9.2 install: `prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the gl@4.9.2 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\local\AppData\npm-cache\_logs\2021-11-25T13_23_14_031Z-debug.log

when installing the package the following error occurs.

[RonanVonkVW]

I have changed to App Service to use the X64 platform but that has no effect on the resulting output.

[dhritzkiv]

Hey @RonanVonkVW. I'm not familiar with App Service, but can you make sure that it is in fact a 64 bit instance?

Specifically, if you run

node -p "process.arch"

It should spit out x64 (and not x86, for example)

[dhritzkiv]

Also, note that it's possible to run 32-bit node.js on a 64-bit instance, so that's something to be aware of. You may need to specifically install 64-bit node.js.

[RonanVonkVW]

Will do that today, I'll let you know.

[RonanVonkVW]

Alright, the console produces ia32 in response:

So I would assume a 64-bit variety of Node should be installed in order for this to work then?

[dhritzkiv]

That's right