iohook prebuild v57 win32 ia32

About

This repo contains working iohook prebuilds for node 8.9.3 and electron 2.0.0 both ABI 57 for true win32 ia32 targets.

This repo is part of and investigation for an issue over at the iohook repo.

The prebuilds contained in this repo were build on the following platform:

• A Windows 7 32bit, IE 11 virtualBox downloaded from Microsoft Virtual Machines
• Node v8.11.2 32bit
• Yarn
• CMake
• Windows Build Tools

Git was also installed from git bash capabilities, but probably not required.

Please note: Windows Build Tools installs Python to the local user folder, but not necessarily the user nor environment PATH, and should be added manually.

Build steps

Once the platform was setup, the iohook repo was cloned and the out of scope targets removed from the package.json file, shown below:

{
  "supportedTargets": [
    [
      "electron",
      "2.0.0",
      "57"
    ],
    [
      "node",
      "8.9.3",
      "57"
    ]
  ]
}

Then running the deploy script handled the rest:

yarn run deploy

or

node build.js

Overwriting iohook ia32 prebuilds

Once the native addons are compiled into the builds folder, replace the iohook builds in your project.

For example the files located below in an electron project:

C:\apps\electron-app\node_modules\iohook\builds\electron-v57-win32-ia32\build\Release

This can be implemented an a post-build script in the project as a temporary work around until the issue over at the iohook repo is resolved.