Electron-forge: Building on OSX for win32 throws an "Unknown Error -86"

[TheImpressionist]

Hey, I'm trying to build my app for my colleagues. They are using windows, though I keep getting the following error:

An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
Error: spawn Unknown system error -86
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:394:11)
    at spawn (child_process.js:540:9)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js:44:19
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js:43:10)
    at WindowsApp.runRcedit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/electron-packager/src/win32.js:94:31)
    at WindowsApp.create (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/electron-packager/src/win32.js:106:5)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at packager (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/electron-packager/src/index.js:165:20)
    at _default (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/@electron-forge/core/src/api/package.ts:206:3)
    at _default (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/node_modules/@electron-forge/core/src/api/make.ts:141:5)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli/src/electron-forge-make.ts:41:5 {
  errno: 'Unknown system error -86',
  code: 'Unknown system error -86',
  syscall: 'spawn'
}

Electron Forge was terminated. Location:
{}

Here's my configuration.

config": {
    "forge": {
      "packagerConfig": {},
      "makers": [
        {
          "name": "@electron-forge/maker-squirrel",
          "config": {
            "name": "lumifish_admin"
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "@electron-forge/maker-zip",
          "platforms": [
            "darwin"
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "@electron-forge/maker-deb",
          "config": {}
        },
        {
          "name": "@electron-forge/maker-rpm",
          "config": {}
        }
      ],
      "plugins": [
        [
          "@electron-forge/plugin-webpack",
          {
            "mainConfig": "./webpack.main.config.js",
            "renderer": {
              "config": "./webpack.renderer.config.js",
              "entryPoints": [
                {
                  "html": "./src/views/main/index.html",
                  "js": "./src/views/main/index.ts",
                  "name": "main_window"
                },
                {
                  "html": "./src/views/loading/index.html",
                  "js": "./src/views/loading/index.ts",
                  "name": "loading_window"
                },
                {
                  "html": "./src/views/login/index.html",
                  "js": "./src/views/login/index.ts",
                  "name": "login_window",
                  "ignore": []
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  }

The command:

electron-forge make --platform="win32"

I also really have no idea what I'm doing.

[TheImpressionist]

Looks more like a wine issue. When I try to run wine I get the following error: bad CPU type in executable: wine

Will keep digging around.

[TheImpressionist]

Ok, I found the issue.

I'm running MacOS Catalina, and it's not set to run 32bit software. Wine is 32bit, thus cannot be run. What a load of crap from Apple.

Anyone ran into a similar issue? Any alternatives?

[TheImpressionist]

After looking further into this, there is not solution for this for MacOS Catalina. Pretty sad that Apple went and did a stupid thing with the 64bit only. Dang, well, I guess I'll have to go and build apps locally on everyone's computers.

[hermes-project-software]

Ah experiencing a similar issue

[skydzo]

I have the same issue juste after updating to Catalina..
Did anyone find a solution ?
Thanks

[malept]

Upgrade Forge to latest v6 and make sure you've installed wine-stable from Homebrew, which should install wine64.

[skydzo]

Thank you very much !
With the wine64 and this post https://github.com/electron/node-rcedit/issues/51#issuecomment-546234084 I was able to build my app for windows.

[fluttergeek]

I just found another post that solves this problem. It worked for me. Can not build the windows installer on macOS Catalina version 10.15 #4305 (comment)