32-bit rcedit does not work on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) hosts when building Windows targets

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Issue Details

• Electron Packager Version: 13.1.1
• Electron Version:

4.1.4

• Operating System:

OSX 10.15

• Last Known Working Electron Packager version::

13.1.1 / 14.0.6

Expected Behavior

package all apps

Actual Behavior

when packaging the windows app the following error msgs appear:

13.1.1:

Unhandled rejection Error: spawn Unknown system error -86 at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:366:11) at spawn (child_process.js:551:9) at module.exports (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js:47:15) at P (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/electron-packager/node_modules/pify/index.js:32:6) at new Promise (<anonymous>) at /Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/electron-packager/node_modules/pify/index.js:6:9 at ret (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/electron-packager/node_modules/pify/index.js:56:76) at getIconPath.then.icon (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/electron-packager/win32.js:95:39)

14.0.6: Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.1.4 Packaging app for platform mas x64 using electron v4.1.4 Packaging app for platform linux x64 using electron v4.1.4 Packaging app for platform win32 x64 using electron v4.1.4 (node:16768) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: spawn Unknown system error -86 at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:366:11) at spawn (child_process.js:551:9) at Promise (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js:44:19) at new Promise (<anonymous>) at module.exports (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js:43:10) at WindowsApp.runRcedit (/Users/meow/data/phd/phd_projects/pipeline/code/elephant_client/node_modules/electron-packager/src/win32.js:94:31) (node:16768) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 3) (node:16768) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code. WARNING: signing is required for mas builds. Provide the osx-sign option, or manually sign the app later.

To Reproduce

Additional Information

[antelle]

I’ve solved it this way:

1. make a VM with Ubuntu+wine (use this hack to fix VirtualBox crashes on macOS Catalina)
2. remove wine
3. add a script called wine and inside this script upload everything to the VM, after which run wine there
4. override arguments, if necessary

Seems to be working fine here.

My wine script, to save some time if anyone wants to do the same: https://gist.github.com/antelle/10ca9beed2a83da9af918f1fce3fe7e7

Disclaimer: shitty quality everywhere here in my scripts. Use at your own risk.

[antelle]

Well, Python is preinstalled on mac and exists everywhere on linux and it’s for sure not that bad as requiring wine that does not exist at all for mac now. The problem is, if there’s complex information, pefile can produce broken results 😞