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Seo – I get import gyp error when try to install package for electron

I tried to install on Windows the demo from this repository:
https://github.com/Seo-Rii/electron-acrylic-window

git clone https://github.com/Seo-Rii/electron-acrylic-window.git
cd electron-acrylic-window
yarn install

But installation returned next error:

npm WARN deprecated @npmcli/[email protected]: This functionality has been moved to @npmcli/fs
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This module is not used anymore, and has been replaced by @npmcli/package-json
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path E:testelectron-acrylic-windownode_modules@seoriiwin32-displayconfig
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:Windowssystem32cmd.exe /d /s /c npm run rebuild
npm ERR! > @seorii/[email protected] rebuild
npm ERR! > node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected]
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | x64
npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.12.0 found at "C:UsersAptypAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython312python.exe"
npm ERR! gyp info find VS using VS2022 (17.6.33829.357) found at:
npm ERR! gyp info find VS "C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio2022Community"
npm ERR! gyp info find VS run with --verbose for detailed information
npm ERR! gyp info spawn C:UsersAptypAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython312python.exe
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\gyp_main.py',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-f',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'msvs',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\@seorii\win32-displayconfig\build\config.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\node-gyp\addon.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'C:\Users\Aptyp\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\20.10.0\include\node\common.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=C:\Users\Aptyp\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\20.10.0',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\node-gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=C:\\Users\\Aptyp\\AppData\\Local\\node-gyp\\Cache\\20.10.0\\<(target_arch)\\node.lib',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\@seorii\win32-displayconfig',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   'E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\@seorii\win32-displayconfig\build',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! Traceback (most recent call last):
npm ERR!   File "E:testelectron-acrylic-windownode_modulesnode-gypgypgyp_main.py", line 42, in <module>
npm ERR!     import gyp  # noqa: E402
npm ERR!     ^^^^^^^^^^
npm ERR!   File "E:testelectron-acrylic-windownode_modulesnode-gypgyppylibgyp__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
npm ERR!     import gyp.input
npm ERR!   File "E:testelectron-acrylic-windownode_modulesnode-gypgyppylibgypinput.py", line 19, in <module>
npm ERR!     from distutils.version import StrictVersion
npm ERR! ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (E:testelectron-acrylic-windownode_modulesnode-gyplibconfigure.js:259:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:514:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.22000
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "E:\test\electron-acrylic-window\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd E:testelectron-acrylic-windownode_modules@seoriiwin32-displayconfig
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v20.10.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.4.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

I installed last Python and Visual Studio, but there was no positive effect. I looked through a lot of information but still didn’t understand what it was missing. This is my first acquaintance with electron.

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  1. 0

    First, make sure you really want to use this library. Its last update was two years ago, it doesn’t seem maintained anymore.

    You get this error because of a problem of compatibility. According to the logs, you use:

    node-gyp v8.4.1
node v20.10.0
Python v3.12.0

    And the error you get is:

    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

    This is because distutils has been removed in Python v3.12. To fix this, you either need to upgrade you version of node-gyp (to v10+), or downgrade your version of Python (and maybe NodeJS too).

    Additional notes:

    • Transparency effects are natively available with the vibrancy API on MacOS #7898
    • Transparency effects should be also available for Windows since Electron v24.4.0, but the API is currently unstable #38163
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  2. 0

    I faced the same error. Downgrading Python to 3.10 using virtualenv works for me.
    Steps:

    Install python 3.10. I’m using MacOS, so doing it with brew

    brew install [email protected]

    Install virtualenv and create venv

    pip install virtualenv
virtualenv -p python3.10 venv

source venv/bin/activate

    And after that you can run yarn install or npm install

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