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Building Mac applications on Windows generates no output

See original GitHub issue

electron-packager . ${APP_NAME} --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=${ELECTRON_VERSION} --out=${OUTPUT_DIR}/mac64

Apparently the above command doesn’t output anything

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Created 8 years ago
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maleptcommented, Jan 1, 2019

It probably has something to do with the fact that your app directory is on one drive and the temp directory is on the other. Also, it’s --out, not -out.

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dogancelikcommented, Jan 1, 2019

Electron-packager fails when building for Darwin (on Windows host). I used to create Mac packages successfully on version 8.7.2. I’m running cmd.exe as Admin.

Similar issues: #164 and my comment from 2016 (symlink was working)

# npx electron-packager --version
Electron Packager 13.0.1
Node v11.3.0
Host Operating system: win32 (x64)

# npx electron-packager . --platform=win32 --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0
Packaging app for platform win32 x64 using electron v4.0.0
Wrote new app to d:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-win32-x64

# npx electron-packager . --platform=linux --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0
Packaging app for platform linux x64 using electron v4.0.0
Wrote new app to d:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-linux-x64

# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
EPERM: operation not permitted, stat 'C:\Users\dogan\AppData\Local\Temp\electron-packager\darwin-x64\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Atomic TweetDeck.app\Contents\Frameworks\Squirrel.framework\Versions\Current'

# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0 --no-tmpdir
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
Cannot copy '.' to a subdirectory of itself, 'd:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Electron.app\Contents\Resources\app'.

# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0 --no-tmpdir -out=build
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
Cannot copy '.' to a subdirectory of itself, 'd:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Electron.app\Contents\Resources\app'.

# I set a parent directory as build folder: "..\build"
# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0 --no-tmpdir -out=..\build
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
Cannot copy '.' to a subdirectory of itself, 'd:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Electron.app\Contents\Resources\app'.