Icon not being added to .exe file

Hi,

I’m packaging an application with electron-packager@5.1.1 on OS X El Capitan with the following command:

electron-packager . Herostratus \
    --platform=win32 \
    --arch=x64 \
    --version=0.34.2 \  
        --icon="assets/icon.ico" \
    --overwrite \
    --out=release/

The icon is added to the top left corner of the window and appears in the bottom bar on Windows 10, however I still see the default Electron icon when opening the directory with the file explorer.

Is there anything else I have to add to get the icon on the .exe file?

I also tested generating the package directly on Windows 10 in case the issue was wine-related but the results were the same.

[jviotti]

I did two things and one of them solved the issue, but not sure which one:

• I had a 1024x1024 *.png icon that I passed to BrowserWindow. I resized to 256x256.
• Pass --asar to electron-packager.

[ghost]

i tried with --icon=“./assets/icon.ico” this works for me