Electron-forge: Application icon in production mode

[waghcwb]

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Issue Details

• Electron Forge Version:
  6.0.0-beta.51

• Electron Version:
  v9.0.2

• Operating System:
  Windows 10

Expected Behavior

Expected to set icon in production as the same way we do in development.

Actual Behavior

I'm having issues to set app icon in my application, below is my configuration, it works on development mode, but fails on production mode.

const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    icon: 'src/assets/icon.png',
});

The output is the following

Error: Image could not be created from src/assets/icon.png

Also, here as printscreen from the error

To Reproduce

https://github.com/waghcwb/electron-forge-sample

Additional Information

The error happens when you run npm run make

[malept]

This isn't a bug in Electron Forge. See the FAQ entry from Electron Packager.

[waghcwb]

This didn't work for me. For those who whiling how to setup icon in electron forge you can do this way in your package.json file

{
  "config": {
    "forge": {
      "packagerConfig": {
        "icon": "src/assets/images/icon.ico"
      },
  },
}