throws "wmic ENOENT" when running vivliostyle preview

[h-takeyeah]

environments

• locale: ja-JP
• OS: Microsoft Windows 11 (Home edition)
• node: 24.14.0
• npm: 11.9.0
• @vivliostyle/cli: 10.3.1

issue

When running vivliostyle preview, it throws "wmic ENOENT" error.

> npx vivliostyle preview

INFO Start preview
ERROR Error: spawn wmic ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:286:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)

If you think this is a bug, please report at https://github.com/vivliostyle/vivliostyle-cli/issues

notes

The program wmic.exe is called here and may cause the issue:

vivliostyle-cli/src/util.ts

Line 391 in 14c9873

const { stdout } = await exec('wmic', ['os', 'get', 'locale']);

In addition to this, the error can be reproduced by running npm create book (I attached the log). I understand that reporting this issue in this repository is not appropriate, however I'm reporting it just in case.

On my another computer (Windows 11 Pro) which has wmic.exe, both of those commands (vivliostyle preview and npm create book) worked as expected.

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This is the log of npm create book.

~\Documents  npm create book
Need to install the following packages:
create-book@10.3.1
Ok to proceed? (y) y

> npx
> create-book

║
◆─ Where should we create your project?
◇─ Where should we create your project?
║  helloworld
║
◆─ What's the title of your publication?
◇─ What's the title of your publication?
║  Helloworld
║
◆─ What's the author name?
◇─ What's the author name?
║  My Name
ERROR Error: spawn wmic ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:286:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)

If you think this is a bug, please report at https://github.com/vivliostyle/vivliostyle-cli/issues
npm error code 1
npm error path C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Documents
npm error command failed
npm error command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c create-book
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2026-03-24T11_37_51_248Z-debug-0.log

[h-takeyeah]

I noticed that wmic.exe has been deprecated and is disabled by default for Windows 11 regardless its edition. It's completely OS side issue not on vivliostyle.

Starting January 29, 2024, you'll find Windows Management Instrumentation Command line (WMIC) feature "disabled by default" on the insider build of Windows 11.
WMI command line (WMIC) utility deprecation: Next steps | Windows IT Pro blog

[h-takeyeah]

Updated comment to include @vivliostyle/cli version infomation.