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Cannot create symlinks; skipping darwin platform on Windows

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v5.0.0
npm run clean:osx && electron-packager ./app \"sulu\" --out=dist --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=0.25.3 --icon=src/icon.icns
windows 7 32bit

Returns Cannot create symlinks; skipping darwin platform 😿

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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s-acommented, Jul 5, 2015

It works running cmd.exe as admin. Strange. I am always logged in as administrator! Anyway ty for help!

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kfranqueirocommented, Jul 5, 2015

That message is due to electron-packager working around #71 (which I see you’ve also commented on); without the workaround, electron-packager would just silently bail out in this situation.

You can try running as administrator on Windows to get around this, but even then, I’m not sure there’s a safe way to zip up the OS X app - I tried Windows’ built-in compressed folder and 7-zip and both trip up on the symlinks.

I’m inclined to close this and continue tracking #71.