Electron-builder: Symlinks in asarUnpack are not copied

[NTag]

• Version: 15.2.0

• Target: Linux x64

With the asarUnpack option, it is possible to specify directories. The symlinks in those will not be copied in the app.asar.unpack/ destination folder.

I think we can see here that only files are added to the array filesToUnpack, and that no symlink will be added to filesToUnpack.

[develar]

Workaround: set asar to false.

[develar]

I hope it is obsolete now.

[Lucaszw]

This issue (or at least a similar one) still appears to be occurring for me. I have a bunch of sibling packages, that are linked together via lerna bootstrap. When running electron-builder, the node_modules of the sibling packages are not installed causing some missing package errors.

lerna --version
2.5.1
electron-builder --version
19.56.0
npm --version
5.4.2
node --version
v8.2.1

[develar]

@Lucaszw Is it possible to provide sample project?

[Lucaszw]

Np!

https://github.com/Lucaszw/lerna-electron-builder-sample

After running electron builder:
app/dist/win-ia32-unpacked/resources/app/node_modules does not include lodash or backbone (dependencies of packages/app's siblings).

Running the installer leads to the following error message:

[Slapbox]

Is there anything we can try to resolve this? I tried adding the relevant folders to asarUnpack, but no luck with that. In particular, I'm having an issue with Lovell's Sharp

Linux Mint 18.3 x64
Electron-builder 20.8.1
Node 8.11.1
npm 5.6.0

Thanks for all your hard work and any ideas you might have.