Installer problems when building against v1.8.2-vmp1010

Our app uses the built in Electron updater which means we run it through the windows-installer tool to build the binaries we ship. When we use the win32 x64 build of v1.8.2-vmp1010 the installer and setup binaries are built without error, however on running the setup.exe it warns of a missing VCRuntime140.dll file:

This doesn’t happen with the vanilla build of Electron v1.8.2, nor with the 32bit version of v1.8.2-vmp1010. There’s not much in the way of help in the Squirrel logs so I’m at a loss as to why we get the error - as the file looks to get bundled.

One thing I’ve noticed is that if I md5 the x64 .dll files in the Castlabs build and compare against the vanilla Electron build there are 2 files that are the same - vcruntime140.dll being one of them.

Any thoughts would be appreciated, I’ll comment if I find anymore info or a resolution.

[obecny]

@devaffair electronDist is a part of electron build configuration https://www.electron.build/configuration/configuration so you keep this inside your app’s package.json. I have the same simple built script for osx and windows "release": "electron-packager tmp --overwrite --out=release --asar --executableName=electron" it works fine on both os I mean I can run npm run release on both of the system and as an outcome I have bundled version

[simongregory]

@devaffair, this isn’t the same issue but try configuring electron-packager to use a download mirror - you can see in the error it’s trying to download (via electron-download) from the main electron repo.

These options work for us when invoking the packager for Windows (for legacy reasons our Mac build is different):

  download: {
    mirror: 'https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases/releases/download/v',
    cache: './.electron-dl-cache'
  },