[email protected] error while creating eliza-starter

[Budyn0]

Hey, since today morning I can't start basic eliza-starter project becuase of this error:

You: [2025-05-19 12:24:11] ERROR: Error starting agents:
tries: [
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Debug/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Debug/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Debug/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Release/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Release/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/default/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/compiled/22.15.0/darwin/arm64/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/release/install-root/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/debug/install-root/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/default/install-root/better_sqlite3.node",
"/Users/xyz/Desktop/eliza/eliza-starter/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/better-sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v127-darwin-arm64/better_sqlite3.node"
]

[Cfomodz]

The most reliable fix is updating to the latest version of better-sqlite3, which includes improved prebuild support for Node.js 23+.

Using pnpm:

cd your-eliza-project
pnpm add better-sqlite3@latest --force
pnpm rebuild better-sqlite3

Using npm:

npm install better-sqlite3@latest --force
npm rebuild better-sqlite3