hardhat test fails with TypeError: nativeNC failed when hardhat-gas-reporter enabled

[aczire]

Hey, I was trying out the FundMe and was creating my own contract; and stumbled across a weird exception with hardhat-gas-reporter.

Regardless of what ever I tried, hardhat-gas-reporter fails always with nativeNC failed exception.
Made sure there is no eth-gas-reporter installed, and my hardhat config has only enabled: true
, and removed all other options like coinmarketcap, currency, token etc. to ensure they are not causing the exception.

The tests passes successfully (with network localhost and hardhat) if I comment out or remove require("hardhat-gas-reporter"), so tests are not the problem.
Tried with networks, hardhat, localhost, testnets (rinkeby, goerli), nothing helped.

$ npx hardhat test --network localhost
An unexpected error occurred:

TypeError: nativeNC failed:

at createInvalidReporterError (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\mocha\lib\errors.js:207:13)
at Mocha.reporter (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\mocha\lib\mocha.js:343:17)
at new Mocha (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\mocha\lib\mocha.js:196:6)
at SimpleTaskDefinition.action (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\builtin-tasks\test.ts:95:21)
at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:219:14)
at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:219:14)
at Environment.run (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:131:14)
at SimpleTaskDefinition.action (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\builtin-tasks\test.ts:159:28)
at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:219:14)
at Environment._runTaskDefinition (D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\hardhat\src\internal\core\runtime-environment.ts:219:14) {

code: 'ERR_MOCHA_INVALID_REPORTER',
reporter: 'D:\development\carbon\cct\node_modules\eth-gas-reporter\index.js'
}

There is only hardhat-gas-reporter, as you can see below.

$ npm list | grep gas-report

├── hardhat-gas-reporter@1.0.8

$ npm list -g | grep gas-report

├── hardhat-gas-reporter@1.0.8

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks!

[krakxn]

Reply w the hardhat-config please