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Convert character encodings in pure javascript.

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Error: 'global is not defined'

RaschidJFR opened this issue · comments

commented

When importing iconv-lite (v0.6.2) in an Angular 10 app I'm getting this error:

Uncaught ReferenceError: global is not defined
    at Object../node_modules/buffer/index.js (my-component.js:238)
    at __webpack_require__ (runtime.js:85)
    at Object../node_modules/safer-buffer/safer.js (my-component.js:8266)
    at __webpack_require__ (runtime.js:85)
    at Object../node_modules/iconv-lite/lib/index.js (my-component.js:7768)
    at __webpack_require__ (runtime.js:85)
    at Module../src/my-component.ts (my-component.js:11618)
    at __webpack_require__ (runtime.js:85)
    at Object.1 (my-component.js:11705)
    at __webpack_require__ (runtime.js:85)

It looks like the error comes from the dependency safer-buffer, but whilst it gets fixed, a workaround for this is adding this line in index.js:

// node_modules/iconv-lite/lib/index.js
window.global = window;  // Add this just before importaing safer-buffer
var Buffer = require("safer-buffer").Buffer;
commented

I've created a hotfix but can't create a PR because it is not up to date with master and master is now too far from this version. So If anyone runs across this issue, you can use this fix for now:

npm install raschidjfr/iconv-lite#hotfix/v0.6.3
commented

Because of the removal of safer-buffer with #265 this might be auto fixed in the next version.