Electron-builder: Remove Block Map

[Deckerz]

• 19.56.2:

Not using electron updater

• Building for: Windows

I am building the app, but i want the installer to be simply one exe not an Exe and blockmap. How do i get it to not make a blockmap?

[develar]

You don't need to bundle blockmap file. Simply ignore it. it will be later used by updater (this functionality is not yet enabled).

[laurent22]

Building the blockmap takes a long time and is useless. There should be a way to disable it.

[laurent22]

@develar, it seems you agree this blockmap generation is ridiculously slow and useless since you've added an option for yourself to disable it. Perhaps you could make this option available to everyone?

[1nfility]

Any update on this?

[laurent22]

Develar tells others to "Simply ignore it" however these useless files are bothering him too, so he's added undocumented options:

{
    "build": {
        "nsis": {
            "differentialPackage": false
        },
        "dmg": {
            "writeUpdateInfo": false
        }
    }
}

Basically "differentialPackage" removes it for Windows builds, and "writeUpdateInfo" for dmg builds. It's undocumented but so far it works.

[1nfility]

Thank you for this! I've only tested it for dmg, but it works so far.

[codingismy11to7]

the blockmap generation also seems to hang forever at high cpu on apple silicon running node through rosetta