Better-sqlite3 build error, even when running with Docker

[brownrygg]

Followed all the easy start instructions without docker but was running into better-sqlite3 errors. Figured I was messing up the module dependencies somehow. Tried many more times with different configs, but got nowhere.

Now trying to build with the docker compose, but still cannot get around the better-sqlite3 errors.

On Windows 11, running in WSL 2 Ubuntu 22.04. Have docker desktop installed and running containers to Ubuntu.

Error:
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! build error
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pnpm/dist/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:216:23)
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pnpm/dist/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--release"
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! cwd /app/node_modules/.pnpm/better-sqlite3@8.0.1/node_modules/better-sqlite3
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! node -v v23.3.0
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v10.2.0
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: gyp ERR! not ok
241.4 .../node_modules/better-sqlite3 install: Failed

Dear God please help.

[DavidLazar13]

Not sure if related but for me I get this when try to start the agent locally

[amit-immanent]

whats your node version ?

[brownrygg]

Not sure if related but for me I get this when try to start the agent locally

Yeah @DavidLazar13, I got the same thing locally, which is why I moved to docker - hoping that the container would build everything correctly.

@amit-immanent node 23.3.0

Could it be a better-sqlite3 update, or change int the core package?

[alohamonius]

conda create -n node-build python=3.11
conda activate node-build
pnpm config set python3.11

cd node_modules/better-sqlite3
pnpm build-release

[brownrygg]

@alohamonius thanks for this! I must apologize though, I'm still new to all of this. Should I add these to my docker-compose.yaml file to extract the right better-sqlite3 node?

[alohamonius]

@brownrygg i'm not sure now, but at least need to understand that not only node version crucial, python also play some role

[Mer-idium]

The below will work, something appears to be wrong with the better-sqlite3 package. Manually installing it worked for me.

cd eliza-starter/node_modules/better-sqlite3
pnpm install

Running your normal start script should then work, make sure you specify the character model you are using as per below.
pnpm start --character="characters/deep-thought.character.json"

[ykaravas]

I got the same error and figured out the manual install step as well, but when i run pnpm start, i get to the following point (The last INFO in the image) and when i press enter it has the "You:"'s after.

Then if i type anything after the "You:" and press enter i get the following:

I ran with just "pnpm start" though. When i run with the default character in the character's directory, i seem to get something along these lines:

[madjin]

went through this same issue, going to update the docs until issue is fixed

[alohamonius]

Tried to do it on ubuntu machine, conda version not enough
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential
to build sqlite

[anthonykimani]

The below will work, something appears to be wrong with the better-sqlite3 package. Manually installing it worked for me.

cd eliza-starter/node_modules/better-sqlite3 pnpm install

Running your normal start script should then work, make sure you specify the character model you are using as per below. pnpm start --character="characters/deep-thought.character.json"

This solution worked for me