[solved] Windows: meteor create fails (semver is not a constructor)

Hi,

I am back to meteor after some years :slight_smile:

When I run

metor create myapp

I get the following error

C:\Users\user>meteor create myapp
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.11.1\mt-os.windows.x86_64\dev_bundle\lib\node_modules\meteor-promise\promise_server.js:218
      throw error;
      ^

TypeError: semver is not a constructor
    at Function.PV.compare (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.11.1\mt-os.windows.x86_64\packages\package-version-parser\package-version-parser.js:215:26)
    at C:\tools\packaging\catalog\catalog-remote.js:578:28
    at Array.sort (<anonymous>)
    at RemoteCatalog.getSortedVersionRecords (C:\tools\packaging\catalog\catalog-remote.js:577:20)
    at LayeredCatalog._returnFirst (C:\tools\packaging\catalog\catalog.js:190:12)
    at LayeredCatalog.getSortedVersionRecords (C:\tools\packaging\catalog\catalog.js:202:17)
    at CS.CatalogLoader._getSortedVersionRecords (packages/constraint-solver.js:333:20)
    at CS.CatalogLoader.loadAllVersions (packages/constraint-solver.js:362:26)
    at CS.CatalogLoader.loadAllVersionsRecursive (packages/constraint-solver.js:395:10)
    at CS.Input.loadFromCatalog (packages/constraint-solver.js:562:17)
    at packages/constraint-solver.js:2285:15
    at Function.time (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.11.1\mt-os.windows.x86_64\tools\tool-env\tools\tool-env\profile.ts:284:12)
    at CS.PackagesResolver.resolve (packages/constraint-solver.js:2282:13)
    at C:\tools\project-context.js:561:35
    at Function.time (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.11.1\mt-os.windows.x86_64\tools\tool-env\tools\tool-env\profile.ts:284:12)
    at C:\tools\project-context.js:557:19
    at Object.enterJob (C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:388:12)
    at C:\tools\project-context.js:529:20
    at C:\tools\packaging\catalog\catalog.js:100:5
    at Object.capture (C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:283:5)
    at Object.catalog.runAndRetryWithRefreshIfHelpful (C:\tools\packaging\catalog\catalog.js:99:31)
    at ProjectContext._resolveConstraints (C:\tools\project-context.js:528:13)
    at C:\tools\project-context.js:300:9
    at Object.enterJob (C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:388:12)
    at ProjectContext._completeStagesThrough (C:\tools\project-context.js:290:18)
    at C:\tools\project-context.js:282:12
    at Function.run (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.11.1\mt-os.windows.x86_64\tools\tool-env\tools\tool-env\profile.ts:289:14)
    at ProjectContext.prepareProjectForBuild (C:\tools\project-context.js:281:13)
    at C:\tools\cli\commands.js:835:20
    at Object.capture (C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:283:5)
    at Object.main.captureAndExit (C:\tools\cli\main.js:275:29)
    at Command.func (C:\tools\cli\commands.js:809:8)
    at C:\tools\cli\main.js:1528:15 

Running same command from ubuntu wsl it works

It could be an extra node_modules directory, as this other thread encountered:

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Yes! Deleting the node_modules folder solved the problem.

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wow, I really didn’t expect that to work :laughing: