Building Asar broken with asar@0.14.4

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Hello! If you do a fresh install with npm i electron-packager it brings down asar@0.14.4.

Running electron-packager . --asar then fails with an ENOENT error as the file destination is no-longer correct: (it looks like the temp directory is used twice).

As a quick fix I fixed the version of asar:

npm i asar@0.14.3 -D

Error

  flora-colossus creating walker with rootModule=dist +0ms
  electron-packager Running asar with the options {} +14ms
fs.js:941
   binding.lstat(pathModule._makeLong(path));
          ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '%TMP%\electron-packager\win32-x64\app\resources\app\%TMP%\electron-packager\win32-x64\app\resources\app\main.js'
    at Object.fs.lstatSync (fs.js:941:11)
    at handleFile (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\lib\asar.js:116:23)
    at next (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\lib\asar.js:170:12)
    at Object.module.exports.createPackageFromFiles (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\lib\asar.js:175:10)
    at D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\lib\asar.js:50:20
    at D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\lib\crawlfs.js:19:12
    at f (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\once\once.js:25:25)
    at Glob.<anonymous> (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\node_modules\glob\glob.js:146:7)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at Glob.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at Glob._finish (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\node_modules\glob\glob.js:185:8)
    at done (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\node_modules\glob\glob.js:172:12)
    at Glob._processGlobStar2 (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\node_modules\glob\glob.js:614:12)
    at D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\asar\node_modules\glob\glob.js:603:10
    at RES (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\inflight\inflight.js:31:16)
    at f (D:\dev\trading-ui\electron-host\node_modules\once\once.js:25:25)

[malept]

To people affected by this:

This is a confirmed bug with the asar module on Windows. Per the original post, there is a workaround to pin the asar version to the last known good version.

It would be appreciated if people refrained from saying “I ran into the same issue, the workaround worked”, as it causes unnecessary notifications for people subscribing to this issue. Instead, use the reaction emoji.

It would also be appreciated if someone could file a detailed bug report at the asar repository so its developers know about the regression. I have filed https://github.com/electron/asar/issues/158.

[malept]

This should be fixed in asar 0.14.5. Please let upstream developers know if it still doesn’t work, after you’ve verified that asar has indeed been updated to >= 0.14.5 for the Electron Packager installation you’re using. A common mistake is updating the Packager dependencies for the project-specific installation, and then running the globally-installed Packager.