more testing

scripts/build-distributable.js

@@ -295,6 +295,17 @@ module.exports = EventEmitter;
   // regardless of how the runtime normalizes the key.
   const hasWin32 = hosts.some((h) => h.startsWith('win32'))
   let jsonFixed = 0
+  // Resolve a normalized key to a disk path. Tries native-host first; on CI/Linux
+  // deps may be hoisted to repo root, so fall back to ROOT for node_modules paths.
+  function resolveJsonDiskPath(keyNorm) {
+    const inNativeHost = path.join(NATIVE_HOST_DIR, keyNorm)
+    if (fs.existsSync(inNativeHost)) return inNativeHost
+    if (keyNorm.startsWith('node_modules' + path.sep) || keyNorm.startsWith('node_modules/')) {
+      const inRoot = path.join(ROOT, keyNorm.replace(/\//g, path.sep))
+      if (fs.existsSync(inRoot)) return inRoot
+    }
+    return null
+  }
   let keysToProcess = typeof bundle.keys === 'function' ? [...bundle.keys()] : Object.keys(bundle.files || {})
   for (const key of keysToProcess) {
     if (!key.endsWith('.json')) continue
@@ -308,8 +319,9 @@ module.exports = EventEmitter;
     const isEmpty = !content || content.length === 0
     const invalidJson = content && content.length > 0 && (() => { try { JSON.parse(content.toString()); return false } catch (_) { return true } })()
     if (isEmpty || invalidJson) {
-      const diskPath = path.join(NATIVE_HOST_DIR, key.replace(/^\/+/, '').replace(/\//g, path.sep))
-      if (fs.existsSync(diskPath)) {
+      const keyNorm = key.replace(/^\/+/, '').replace(/\//g, path.sep)
+      const diskPath = resolveJsonDiskPath(keyNorm)
+      if (diskPath) {
         content = fs.readFileSync(diskPath)
         bundle.write(key, content)
         jsonFixed++
@@ -349,6 +361,7 @@ module.exports = EventEmitter;
   // Verification pass: ensure every .json key in the bundle has valid JSON content
   // (catches keys we added or any the runtime might use with different normalization)
   keysToProcess = typeof bundle.keys === 'function' ? [...bundle.keys()] : Object.keys(bundle.files || {})
+  const missingJson = []
   for (const key of keysToProcess) {
     if (!key.endsWith('.json')) continue
     let content = bundle.read(key)
@@ -356,14 +369,19 @@ module.exports = EventEmitter;
     if (!valid) {
       // Normalize key to disk path: strip leading . and slashes, then use path.sep
       const keyNorm = key.replace(/^\.?[/\\]+/, '').replace(/^[/\\]+/, '').replace(/[/\\]/g, path.sep)
-      const diskPath = path.join(NATIVE_HOST_DIR, keyNorm)
-      if (fs.existsSync(diskPath)) {
+      const diskPath = resolveJsonDiskPath(keyNorm)
+      if (diskPath) {
         content = fs.readFileSync(diskPath)
         bundle.write(key, content)
         jsonFixed++
+      } else if (hasWin32) {
+        missingJson.push(key)
       }
     }
   }
+  if (missingJson.length > 0) {
+    console.warn('  Warning: could not refill .json from disk (Windows exe may fail at runtime):', missingJson.slice(0, 5).join(', ') + (missingJson.length > 5 ? ' ...' : ''))
+  }
   if (jsonFixed > 0) console.log(`  Patched ${jsonFixed} empty/invalid .json entries`)
   if (hasWin32 && keysToProcess.some((k) => k.endsWith('.json'))) console.log('  Added Windows backslash path variants for .json entries')
 }