Finally fixed the solc loading issue.

Moved the instantiation of the live-plugin-manager in to the child solc process. This allowed us to use the live-plugin-manager to require the installed solc file.

If the module is the same version as used by embark, the module is still loading using the normal require (from node_modules), as before.

lib/modules/solidity/solcP.js

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ let solcProcess;
 process.on('message', (msg) => {
   if (msg.action === "init") {
     solcProcess = new SolcProcess(msg.options);
-    return process.send({result: "initiated"});
+    return this.send({result: "initiated"});
   }
 
   else if (msg.action === 'loadCompiler') {

lib/modules/solidity/solcW.js

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ class SolcW {
     });
     this.solcProcess.send({action: "init", options: {logger: self.logger}});
 
+    this.solcProcess.send({action: "init", options: {}});
+
     if (this.ipc.isServer()) {
       this.ipc.on('compile', self.compile.bind(this));
     }

lib/versions/library_manager.js

@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ class LibraryManager {
   }
 
   listenToCommandsToGetLibrary() {
-    let npm = new Npm({logger: this.embark.logger});
     this.embark.events.setCommandHandler('version:getPackageLocation', (libName, version, cb) => {
+      let npm = new Npm({logger: this.embark.logger, packageName: libName, version:version});
       npm.getPackageVersion(libName, version, cb);
     });
     this.embark.events.setCommandHandler('version:getPackagePath', (libName, version, cb) => {

package-lock.json

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
         "samsam": "1.3.0"
       }
     },
+<<<<<<< develop
     "@types/debug": {
       "version": "0.0.30",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/debug/-/debug-0.0.30.tgz",
@@ -107,6 +108,8 @@
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/url-join/-/url-join-0.8.2.tgz",
       "integrity": "sha1-EYHsvh2XtwNODqHjXmLobMJrQi0="
     },
+=======
+>>>>>>> Finally fixed the solc loading issue.
     "abbrev": {
       "version": "1.1.1",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/abbrev/-/abbrev-1.1.1.tgz",
@@ -4609,6 +4612,7 @@
       "version": "1.2.5",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fs-minipass/-/fs-minipass-1.2.5.tgz",
       "integrity": "sha512-JhBl0skXjUPCFH7x6x61gQxrKyXsxB5gcgePLZCwfyCGGsTISMoIeObbrvVeP6Xmyaudw4TT43qV2Gz+iyd2oQ==",
+      "optional": true,
       "requires": {
         "minipass": "2.3.3"
       }
@@ -7483,6 +7487,7 @@
         }
       }
     },
+<<<<<<< develop
     "live-plugin-manager-git-fix": {
 <<<<<<< refs/remotes/origin/bug_fix/solc-loading-issue
 <<<<<<< refs/remotes/origin/bug_fix/solc-loading-issue
@@ -7563,6 +7568,8 @@
         }
       }
     },
+=======
+>>>>>>> Finally fixed the solc loading issue.
     "load-json-file": {
       "version": "4.0.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/load-json-file/-/load-json-file-4.0.0.tgz",
@@ -7605,14 +7612,6 @@
         "path-exists": "3.0.0"
       }
     },
-    "lockfile": {
-      "version": "1.0.4",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/lockfile/-/lockfile-1.0.4.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-cvbTwETRfsFh4nHsL1eGWapU1XFi5Ot9E85sWAwia7Y7EgB7vfqcZhTKZ+l7hCGxSPoushMv5GKhT5PdLv03WA==",
-      "requires": {
-        "signal-exit": "3.0.2"
-      }
-    },
     "lodash": {
       "version": "4.17.10",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash/-/lodash-4.17.10.tgz",
@@ -12640,11 +12639,6 @@
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/uniqs/-/uniqs-2.0.0.tgz",
       "integrity": "sha1-/+3ks2slKQaW5uFl1KWe25mOawI="
     },
-    "universalify": {
-      "version": "0.1.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/universalify/-/universalify-0.1.1.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha1-+nG63UQ3r0wUiEHjs7Fl+enlkLc="
-    },
     "unorm": {
       "version": "1.4.1",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/unorm/-/unorm-1.4.1.tgz",
@@ -12736,11 +12730,6 @@
         }
       }
     },
-    "url-join": {
-      "version": "4.0.0",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/url-join/-/url-join-4.0.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha1-TTNA6AfTdzvamZH4MFrNzCpmXSo="
-    },
     "url-loader": {
       "version": "0.6.2",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/url-loader/-/url-loader-0.6.2.tgz",