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A module is not found on Windows

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I have packaged my project with electron 1.5.0 and The packaged app works fine on macOS but on windows the same packaged app, in a js file it can not use require from node js module to find something like this: const ab_service = require('../../../common/services/ab_service') and on windows the console show this error:

Uncaught Error: Cannot find module '../../../common/services/ab_service'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (\\Mac\Home\Desktop\APP-win32-x64\resources\electron.asar\common\reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at file://mac/Home/Desktop/APP-win32-x64/resources/app.asar/src/renderer/modules/main/main.js:3:29

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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stroborobocommented, Mar 26, 2017

@malept @KamyarGhajar This is an issue with Parallels’ shared folders, if you copy the output to local disk it’ll work. Visual Studio for example also has some problems if you’re working in shared folders, so this is not an electron-packager issue.

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kamyarghajarcommented, Mar 26, 2017

Thanks @stroborobo