Error: spawn EINVAL

[pavel-101]

Hi,

I'm really new to coding so please bare with me. :)
I just installed canvas-sketch and node.js. When I trying to create a new sketch with canvas-sketch i get:
Error: spawn EINVAL
at ChildProcess.spawn (node:internal/child_process:421:11)
at spawn (node:child_process:761:9)
at command (C:\Sketches\node_modules\spawn-npm-install\index.js:45:14)
at Array. (C:\Sketches\node_modules\install-if-needed\index.js:47:9)
at runSeries (C:\Sketches\node_modules\run-series\index.js:23:33)
at run (C:\Sketches\node_modules\install-if-needed\index.js:52:5)
at C:\Sketches\node_modules\read-closest-package\index.js:29:7

I'm running on:
Windows 11 Home
node v20.12.2
npm 10.5.0

Tried:
The suggestion in this post
Install globally, run with npx and --save-dev.
All attempts gives same result,

After searching a bit more i came across this post which talks about a security update to node. I wonder if this is what's causing the issue? If not how, can i get it to work?

[SonoDavid]

You can fix it by going to C:\Sketches\node_modules\spawn-npm-install\index.js and changing the lines 36 to 40 to this:

  var spawnArgs = {
    shell: true,
    cwd: opt.cwd,
    env: opt.env || process.env,
    stdio: opt.stdio
  }

adding shell: true to the parameters.

I seems like the folder was downloaded from this repo: https://github.com/mattdesl/spawn-npm-install.

[pavel-101]

Thank you @SonoDavid for your help, it worked!

[Dellangelo-graphic]

Hi, I've got the same problem but with one exception: I don't have the note_modules folder :(
I don't know why the program didn't create that. I'm also new in coding please help :(
Thank you anticipated!

[mattdesl]

Hey all, I've just changed a feature that may help fix this problem even when node version is >= 18. Unfortunately I don't have access to Windows right now to test.

Can you try updating the CLI?

If you are using it globally:

npm i canvas-sketch-cli@1.15.0 --global

mkdir test-sketch
cd test-sketch
canvas-sketch sketch.js --new

Or if you are using it with npx:

mkdir test-sketch
cd test-sketch
npx canvas-sketch-cli@1.15.0 sketch.js --new

Or if you are using it with locally installed devDependency:

mkdir test-sketch
cd test-sketch
npm init -y

npm install canvas-sketch-cli@1.15.0 --save-dev
npx canvas-sketch sketch.js --new