Error loading sharp module on Android

[gamericon1729-eng]

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'push') at Object.libvipsVersion (/data/data/com.termux/files/home/youtube-automation-agent-master/node_modules/sharp/node_modules/@img/sharp-wasm32/lib/sharp-wasm32.node.js:1:122617) at Object. (/data/data/com.termux/files/home/youtube-automation-agent-master/node_modules/sharp/lib/utility.js:14:30) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1873:14) at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:2013:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1596:32) at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1398:12) at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:255:19) at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1619:12) at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:191:16) at Object. (/data/data/com.termux/files/home/youtube-automation-agent-master/node_modules/sharp/lib/index.js:14:1) Node.js v26.3.1

[freddysae0]

This isn't Android-specific. It's an incompatibility between the old WebAssembly build of sharp that this project installs and newer versions of its runtime dependency @emnapi/runtime.

On Termux there is no native sharp binary, so sharp falls back to @img/sharp-wasm32. The project pins "sharp": "^0.33.0", which resolves to 0.33.5, and @img/sharp-wasm32@0.33.5 depends on @emnapi/runtime@^1.2.0. npm now installs the latest 1.x (1.11.x), and from @emnapi/runtime 1.4.0 onwards the 0.33.5 wasm build crashes on load with exactly your error:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'push')
    at Object.libvipsVersion (.../@img/sharp-wasm32/lib/sharp-wasm32.node.js)

I reproduced it on a desktop by forcing the wasm build (npm i --cpu=wasm32 --os=android sharp@0.33): it fails with emnapi 1.4.0 through 1.11.3 and works with 1.3.1 or older, on both Node 22 and Node 26.3.1.

Either of these fixes it (both tested on Node 26.3.1 with the wasm32 build, creating and encoding a PNG):

Option 1, upgrade sharp (recommended). In package.json:

"sharp": "^0.34.5"

then reinstall:

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
npm install --cpu=wasm32

Option 2, keep sharp 0.33 and pin the runtime. Add this to package.json and reinstall the same way:

"overrides": {
  "@emnapi/runtime": "1.3.1"
}

Check it with:

node -e "require('sharp')({create:{width:4,height:4,channels:3,background:'#f00'}}).png().toBuffer().then(b=>console.log('sharp OK', b.length))"

(Maintainers: bumping sharp to ^0.34.5 in package.json would fix this for everyone installing on Termux or any other platform that falls back to wasm32.)

[darkzOGx]

Thanks for the report, and thanks @freddysae0 for the diagnosis. That was exactly it: Termux has no native sharp binary, so sharp falls back to its WebAssembly build, and sharp 0.33 crashes with newer @emnapi/runtime releases.

This is fixed on master: sharp is now ^0.34.5. Pull the latest code, then reinstall:

rm -rf node_modules
npm install --cpu=wasm32

The project now needs Node.js 18.17 or newer.