rcedit.exe is not working on Windows

I have the following options for my grunt task:

windowsBuild: {
    options: {
        name: 'Cameron',
        dir: 'app',
        out: 'dist',
        version: '0.25.3',
        platform: 'win32',
        arch: 'ia32',
        icon: 'icon.ico'
    }
}

but the icon isn’t applied to the final dist app… I just get the default Electron icon.

The ico file is valid and at the specified location!

Tried on Windows 7.

[coclav]

I have been struggling all day long with this issue without success. Once I had fixed the MSVCP100.dll issue, the next one was The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)

and I gave up at this stage 😦

I went for Resource Hacker which seemed to work so fare

here is my script. Do that before signing and putting it in installer

[FILENAMES]
     Exe=    "c:\path\to\exe\before\yourElectronApp.exe"
     SaveAs= "c:\bla\bla\YourElectronAPpWithCoolIcons.exe"
[COMMANDS]
     -addoverwrite "path\to\icon.ico", ICONGROUP,1,

[junosuarez]

Windows shortcut icons default to the default app icon, but they can also be set to any icon resource, e.g., another icon resource embedded in the target executable or an icon resource in a dll. I know there are ways to change this programmatically, a super quick search brings up https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2005/08/12/how-can-i-change-the-icon-for-an-existing-shortcut/ - hope this helps point in the right direction!