Error: spawn .\node_modules\webdriverio\bin\wdio ENOENT about gulp-webdriver HOT 3 CLOSED

I just investigated to find the origin of this issue:

Error: spawn c:\Temp\e2e\node_modules\webdriverio\bin\wdio ENOENT
                                                      ^^^^

Trying to spawn a child process with use of given path to wdio does not work under Windows. The file exists, but cannot be executed.

The path to the executable should also consider non-linux environments. Besides that, isn't there a better approach to generate this path? (see https://github.com/webdriverio/gulp-webdriver/blob/051bd74/index.js#L17) Especially when webdriverio npm package isn't a (non-dev) dependency of gulp-webdriver: see https://github.com/webdriverio/gulp-webdriver/blob/051bd74/package.json

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Workaround

In your task definition in gulpfile.js defined the wdioBin parameter like so:

var path = require('path'),
    gulp = require('gulp'),
    webdriver = require('gulp-webdriver');

gulp.task('test:e2e', function() {
    return gulp.src('wdio.conf.js').pipe(webdriver({
        wdioBin: path.join('node_modules', '.bin', 'wdio.cmd') // FIX
    }));
});

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I was getting this error on Windows too and wondered why the fix didn't work. I ended up removing the wdio.cmd paths to make:

@IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
  "%~dp0\node.exe"  "%~dp0\..\bin\wdio" %*
) ELSE (
  @SETLOCAL
  @SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT:;.JS;=;%
  node  "%~dp0\..\bin\wdio" %*
)

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