package:windows fails

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• What is the current behavior? npm run package:windows fails with Exit status 4294967295

• Please tell us about your environment: i ran the latest source codes of angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0 without any changes

npm install -> npm build:prod -> npm run launch -> npm run packages:windows -> failed

Attached debug log

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'run',
1 verbose cli   'package:windows' ]
2 info using npm@5.3.0
3 info using node@v8.5.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'prepackage:windows',
4 verbose run-script   'package:windows',
4 verbose run-script   'postpackage:windows' ]
5 info lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~prepackage:windows: angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0
6 info lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0
7 verbose lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin;C:\Users\lx\Downloads\angular-electron-dream-starter\node_modules\.bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\WebEx\Productivity Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\GtkSharp\2.12\bin;C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\Win64\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\ktvisa;C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\IVI\bin;C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\IVI\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\Bin\;C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\Win64\Bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\VISA\winnt\agvisa;C:\Program Files (x86)\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v716\runtime\win32;C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\.dnx\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft DNX\Dnvm\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\WebEx\PTools020000000;C:\Program Files (x86)\Sennheiser\SoftphoneSDK\;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\Users\louislow\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\lx\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\lx\AppData\Roaming\npm
9 verbose lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: CWD: C:\Users\lx\Downloads\angular-electron-dream-starter
10 silly lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'rimraf packages/win/* && build --win --x64' ]
11 silly lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: Returned: code: 4294967295  signal: null
12 info lifecycle angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0~package:windows: Failed to exec package:windows script
13 verbose stack Error: angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0 package:windows: `rimraf packages/win/* && build --win --x64`
13 verbose stack Exit status 4294967295
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\lifecycle.js:289:16)
13 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:213:7)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\spawn.js:40:14)
13 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:927:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)
14 verbose pkgid angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0
15 verbose cwd C:\Users\lx\Downloads\angular-electron-dream-starter
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.14393
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "package:windows"
18 verbose node v8.5.0
19 verbose npm  v5.3.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 4294967295
22 error angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0 package:windows: `rimraf packages/win/* && build --win --x64`
22 error Exit status 4294967295
23 error Failed at the angular-electron-dream-starter@7.0.0 package:windows script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 4294967295, true ]

[rdafoe]

Hi Colin,

First off. Great job man, thanks so much for creating this!!!

Had same issue as @celestale on a surface pro 3 up-to-date. Stopped after first failure on package creation, then tried dev/prod/aot builds same failure basically.

Tried your suggestion to npm clean and reinstall. This fixed everything: builds, packages, tests, etc.

[Kaffiend]

@celestale sure its simple. npm i -g rimraf any powershell or windows cmd instances you have open close them and reopen, node by default should add a global flagged install to path. But you may need to run CMD or Powershell as Administrator when you run the install command.

This usually installs to C:\Users\UserNameHere\AppData\Roaming\npm but i have seen packages install to C:\Users\UserNameHere\npm as well. to add to path if either are not there already just run SETX /M PATH "%PATH%;C:\Users\UserNameHere\AppData\Roaming\npm or what ever path you need in place of the path after ; in the command the /M switch makes it a system level entry to the PATH variable which is in turn run at system level permissions