openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix Windows: ESM loader path failure — C:\ paths break channel and plugin loading [1 comments, 2 participants]

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Only URLs with a scheme in: file, data, and node are supported by the default ESM loader On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs Received protocol 'c:' \\

TL;DR

Converting raw Windows paths to valid file:// URLs before passing them to Node's ESM loader may resolve the issue.

Guidance

• Verify that all affected loaders are correctly converting Windows paths to file:// URLs, as done in the local fix.
• Check the sdk-alias-*.js file to ensure the tryNative Jiti preference is disabled on Windows.
• Review the code changes made in the local fix to ensure they are applied consistently across all 8 affected loaders.
• Consider creating a centralized function or utility to handle path-to-URL conversions to avoid duplicated code and ensure consistency.

Example

const path = require('path');
const url = require('url');

function convertPathToUrl(filePath) {
  return url.pathToFileURL(path.resolve(filePath));
}

// Usage:
const windowsPath = 'C:\\\\\\path\\\\to\\\\file.js';
const urlPath = convertPathToUrl(windowsPath);

Notes

The provided local fix suggests that converting Windows paths to file:// URLs resolves the issue. However, it is essential to verify that this fix is applied consistently across all affected loaders.

Recommendation

Apply the workaround by converting raw Windows paths to valid file:// URLs, as this has been shown to resolve the issue in the local fix.