Electron-builder: Creating an MSI on Windows fails

Created on 10 Jun 2016 · 4Comments · Source: electron-userland/electron-builder

I'm trying to build an MSI on Windows, I've added in the flag msi: true, but this keeps throwing this wonderful error.

Error: C:\test\directory\node_modules\electron-winstaller-fixed\vendor\Update.com failed with exit code: 4294967295

Not really sure what to do with that error. I notice it says electron-winstaller, so it could well be an issue with that project itself but I'm not sure.

I do have the application building without the msi flag set to true, to an installable windows setup.exe, which is great, but we do want the .msi as well.

Build task looks like this:

"build": {
    "asar": false,
    "win": {
      "msi": true
    },
    "osx": {
      "title": "Test Title",
      "target": "dmg",
      "icon": "src/icon.icns",
      "background": "src/img/bg.png",
      "contents": [
        {
          "x": 448,
          "y": 344,
          "type": "link",
          "path": "/Applications"
        },
        {
          "x": 192,
          "y": 344,
          "type": "file",
          "path": "appPath/macApp.app"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "directories": {
    "buildResources": "dist/web/",
    "app": "./dist/web"
  }

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