"A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed" when run in Windows under Electron or PKG about bcrypto HOT 5 OPEN

I can't seem to reproduce this with pkg. What bcrypto version are you using? Is there any chance of creating an isolated test case which reproduces the issue?

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@chjj since this is for Bob, I think I can answer with reasonable confidence.

Here's our package-lock.json for Bob 4.0:

    "hsd": {
      "version": "https://github.com/kyokan/hsd/tarball/296f36c996d9e1561fd0718d9887402181d57c85",
      "integrity": "sha512-wrLgzlMnL/1vI5lwzR+FEfF9PUPXhuxPkxosFiekuDFHmkB2tvJQeETcS0w+mxLYBS8CFnQFfDyklczO74RCnw==",
      "requires": {
        "bcfg": "~0.1.6",
        "bcrypto": "bcrypto@git+https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcrypto.git#5c3e2b8b3f79d13e1b5c26be197708d0b9e5bcf9",
        "bdb": "~1.2.1",
        "bdns": "~0.1.5",
        "bevent": "~0.1.5",
        "bfile": "~0.2.2",
        "bfilter": "~1.0.5",
        "bheep": "~0.1.5",
        "binet": "~0.3.5",
        "blgr": "~0.1.7",
        "blru": "~0.1.6",
        "blst": "~0.1.5",
        "bmutex": "~0.1.6",
        "bns": "~0.11.0",
        "bsert": "~0.0.10",
        "bsock": "~0.1.9",
        "bsocks": "~0.2.5",
        "btcp": "~0.1.5",
        "buffer-map": "~0.0.7",
        "bufio": "~1.0.6",
        "bupnp": "~0.2.6",
        "bval": "~0.1.6",
        "bweb": "~0.1.10",
        "goosig": "git+https://github.com/kyokan/goosig.git#29cd9dce78abb296400104ab8fea62ee515cefc4",
        "hs-client": "~0.0.8",
        "n64": "~0.2.10",
        "urkel": "~0.6.3"
      },

This commit, from May 26th, is somewhere between 5.1 (may 19th) and 5.2 (jun 13th).

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@chjj @mslipper I am able to get Bob to build and run in dev mode on Windows by reverting this commit: f8f5cb7 or in other words, using cmake instead of node-gyp as you're already planning on doing I think.

I'm not sure but reading up on this issue I think the problem is because electron doesn't contain nodejs, it runs a fork, and so there are these extra tools like electron-builder and electron-rebuild that have to compile the native addons for the correct javascript engine.

What I did just now is clone master branch of Bob, restore the hsd dependency to its master branch from handshake-org, remove the process.env.NODE_BACKEND = 'js' line and install. Then I removed node_modules/bcrypto and replaced it with the master branch of bcrypto, reverting that commit and rebuilding with cmake.

Bob seems to running fine on Windows now in dev mode, and synced the HNS blockchain in about 45 minutes.

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@pinheadmz very interesting that it works with cmake. node-gyp adds a ton of unnecessary flags to each build (most of which are intended for building node.js itself, not addons). I would guess something here is borking the build on windows.

Maybe this justifies switching to cmake for everything, though it is an extra dependency for users depending on how you look at it.

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Oh to be clear - hsd and bcrypto build fine on windows as-is master branches and latest releases. But there is something wrong with building for Electron on windows.

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