Electron-builder: Build both 32 & 64 bit execuable file seperately.

[erguotou520]

• Version:
  ^19.19.1

• Target:
  targets = Platform.WINDOWS.createTarget() &

      win: {
        icon: 'build/icons/icon.ico',
        target: [
          {
            target: 'nsis',
            arch: [
              'x64', 'ia32'
            ]
          }
        ]
      }

I want to build both 32 & 64 bit target nsis file seperately instead of one execuable nsis file. How to do that?

[develar]

Please try:

win: {
  target: ['nsis:ia32', 'nsis:x64']
}

[develar]

But I am afraid that the only way to build — build 2 times. Anyway — please explain why do you need this and why nsis-web is not a solution (if big size is an issue).

[erguotou520]

The two-in-one nsis file is almost 70MB while x64 is about 35MB. And I need to provide offline package for users so nsis-web do not fit me.

[erguotou520]

The workaround now is to create a ia32 task after x64 build finished and change the artifactName like bellow:

        {
          win: {
            icon: 'build/icons/icon.ico',
            artifactName: '${productName} Setup ${version}-ia32.${ext}',
            target: [
              {
                target: 'nsis',
                arch: [
                  'ia32'
                ]
              }
            ]
          }

[erguotou520]

This workaround can build ia32 exe file. But when appveyor publish the 2 exe file to github, the last ia32 exe file will overwrite the previous x64 file as their publish name is the same. I didn't find a way to change the upload file's name, so how to fix this problem?

[peterdanis]

You can set the artifactName to include ${arch} (e.g. ${productName}_v${version}_${arch}.${ext}) and run build process twice, first time with --ia32 and second time with --x64 argument.

[erguotou520]

I have mentioned this above, but the second one will overwrite the first one on github.

[Disorrder]

@peterdanis ${arch} doesn't work, just ignoring :(

[erguotou520]

Yes, I have tried ${arch} recently again, it not work. And another issue is the latest.yml will be overwrited at the second time.

[mahnunchik]

Related issue https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/4467