Electron-packager: Unable to Build for Windows on OS X when sourcedir is "."

[narayananramu]

I tried all possible arguments in CLI yet I still get "... and 1 more" while building for Windows on OS X. I have also install rcedit, wine. Can anyone clearly document building for Windows on OS X.

[malept]

Could you please answer the questions in the issue reporting documentation so that we may better help you with your problem?

[narayananramu]

Electron Packager - 5.1.1
CLI

electron-packager . FooBar --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --version=0.36.0 --icon=assets/win/icon.ico

Building for Windows on Mac OS X El Capitan

[malept]

What's the exact console output when you run the electron-packager command?

[narayananramu]

[malept]

I have never seen that error before. Have you tried building a package for OS X instead? (I want to know if it's specific to Windows as the target platform.)

[narayananramu]

For OS X it is working perfectly, is there any requirements for building windows package I mean dependencies other than Wine and rcedit for OS X ? Is there any other better documentation/tutorial for the same ?

[martianyi]

same error here, on OSX if using electron-packager ./ ElectronTest --out=dist --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=0.36.7 --asar --overwrite --ignore=node_modules/electron-prebuilt --ignore=node_modules/electron-packager it works fine, but if I use electron-packager . ElectronTest --out=dist --all --asar --overwrite --ignore=node_modules/electron-prebuilt --ignore=node_modules/electron-packager,then it shows

electron-packager . ElectronTest --out=dist --all --asar --overwrite --ignore=node_modules/electron-prebuilt --ignore=node_modules/electron-packager


... and 1 more

and stucks.

I didn't install anything like Wine or rcredit though.

[drakmail]

Have almost same issue:

➜  universal-sms electron-packager . --all
Unable to determine application name or Electron version. Please specify an application name and Electron version.
Cannot find module 'package.json' from '/Users/drakmail/Develop/drakmail'(Properties not found yet: dependencies.electron-prebuilt,devDependencies.electron-prebuilt)
➜  universal-sms pwd
/Users/drakmail/Develop/drakmail/universal-sms

➜  universal-sms ls
bin          db.gdb       index.html   js           main.js      node_modules package.json sender.js    storage.js

[malept]

@drakmail this is a different error, you need to either add the electron-prebuilt module as a dependency in package.json or specify the Electron version as a parameter. (See readme for details)

[drakmail]

@malept Thanks, it's really helps!

[gvzq]

When I followed the instructions by using:
electron-packager . --all
It didn't work! I figured I need to do it manually..

This works in terminal:
electron-packager ./ App --out=dist --platform=all --arch=all --asar --overwrite --ignore=node_modules/electron-prebuilt --ignore=node_modules/electron-packager

[malept]

@gvzq I have a comment and a question:

• Per the docs, --ignore=node_modules/electron-prebuilt --ignore=node_modules/electron-packager is already ignored by default.
• Are you saying that you need to type ./ and not . to correctly specify the app's source directory?

[gvzq]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Running electron-packager ./ --all does not execute properly due to a EISDIR error.

electron-app usr$ electron-packager ./ --all
Packaging app for platform linux ia32 using electron v1.3.3
EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, rename '/var/folders/jk/3cmm8ls96bnc00gfys3vqky80000gn/T/electron-packager/linux-ia32/-linux-ia32/electron' -> '/var/folders/jk/3cmm8ls96bnc00gfys3vqky80000gn/T/electron-packager/linux-ia32/-linux-ia32'

[malept]

@gvzq this is a different error than this GitHub issue, could you please file a separate issue? (Making sure you read our docs on filing bugs and follow the directions in the GitHub issue template) It would be much appreciated.

[gvzq]

ok @malept

[kevinsawicki]

The ... and 1 more message is a bug in nugget, the library used to download Electron, https://github.com/maxogden/nugget/issues/16

If you make your terminal window bigger then you should see more output about the download and packaging happening.

[malept]

I'm inclined to close this since this is a dependency bug, then. And there are a bunch of other unrelated issues included in this issue.

[ggojedap]

I had the same problem with the same error "... and 1 more" trying to package for win32 from Mac. In my case the solution was to add Wine to PATH.