The addon gate already rejects a conpty.node without the L"msys-2.0.dll"
marker, in the Electron probe and after the rebuild. But the rebuild compiles
whatever node_modules/node-pty holds, and pnpm only materializes that from the
patch at install time. On a Windows dev checkout whose node_modules predated
the denial, --force compiled for minutes, rewrote conpty.node byte-identical
and unpatched, and the gate then advised "rebuild from source" -- the step
that had just run.
Read src/win/conpty.cc before compiling. If it lacks the literal, stop before
the rebuild and say to run pnpm install, which re-applies the current patch.
An absent source file is not judged; the addon gate still reads the binary.
Neil
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