Error 'Asked for index.html but it was not precompiled' after editing exe manifest to require admin privileges in a packaged app

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Please describe your issue: Running into compilation issues in packaged app on Windows 10, when requested execution level of the exe is changed to requireAdministrator

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set up and build a new project electron-forge init forge && cd forge && npm run package
2. Everything runs fine
3. Change requestedExecutionLevel from asInvoker to requireAdministrator in /out/forge-win32-x64/forge.exe manifest I used mt.exe to extract and edit the manifest since node-rcedit doesn’t seem to be working properly right now. Editing manifest using rcedit results in this issue and adding "win32metadata": { "requested-execution-level": "requireAdministrator" } to forge config results in ‘side by side configuration error’ when running the exe
4. When you run the exe, you get the following error in the window: Failed to compile C:/…/app/src/index.html. Asked for C:/…/app/src/index.html but it was not precompiled
5. When you run the exe from an admin cmd, it actually works fine again

I imagine this is probably electron-compile or electron-prebuild-compile issue, but let me know what you think and I’ll open the issue with the correct project if needed.

[ppuvanasingam]

For anyone else running into this issue:

• Make sure you put your HTML and any static files inside a sub-folder i.e. dist, or src, then point all the files to the correct directory, and recompile, that seems to resolve my issue.

[MarshallOfSound]

As of electron-forge@6.0.0 we don’t use electron-compile by default. If you still experience this issue in a post-6.0.0 world you should raise an issue on electron-compile.