This problem has been brought up a few times and I tried every suggested solution, but nothing helped.
What I have is a native module in a VS code extension. This works very well on Linux + Mac, but I cannot get it to load on Windows 10. Every time the extension is activated and tries to load the native module I get this error. What makes this so strange is that the native module works beautifully in a node session (in a Win command line). I checked what NodeJS version Visual Studio Code uses and installed exactly this version (x86, as vscode is still 32bit). I did an npm install npm -g, ran npm rebuild as well as normal node-gyp rebuild in my extension folder (or node module folder for node-gyp). Every time the module is built fine and works in a node session. Still I cannot get it to work in vscode. So I believe it must be something that has to do with the vscode app on Windows, just don't know what it is. For compilation I tried both VS 2013 and VS 2015.
Interesting here is also how node-gyp compiles the native module on Windows. It appears as if it uses a number of hacks, e.g. the compiled module crashs hard when using std::throw_with_nested (a C++11 feature). Another problem is the win_delay_load_hook.cc file, which contains a hack to make some weird situation work (this init fails on Win 10, so I had to disable that, this is a general DLL init problem not related to the vscode init). So it could well be it's just node-gyp on Win10 which is causing all the trouble. Yet, as I wrote, the native module works nicely in a node session.
What else could I do to find out what exactly is the problem? Is there a log file that shows exactly why the registration is not right? Is there a problem with vscode in general, on Windows 10?
