Mismatched versions of Forge and maker modules

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Electron Forge version

6.0.0-beta.59

Electron version

v13.1.2

Operating system

Windows 10 (Parallels)

Last known working Electron Forge version

none

Expected behavior

Making runs without issues.

Actual behavior

> npm run make

> translationtool@1.0.0 make C:\Users\hof\Documents\TranslationTool_win
> electron-forge make

√ Checking your system
√ Resolving Forge Config

An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
TypeError: **maker.ensureExternalBinariesExist** is not a function
    at _default (C:\Users\hof\Documents\TranslationTool_win\node_modules\@electron-forge\core\src\api\make.ts:148:11)
    at C:\Users\hof\Documents\TranslationTool_win\node_modules\@electron-forge\cli\src\electron-forge-make.ts:44:5

Electron Forge was terminated. Location:
{}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! translationtool@1.0.0 make: `electron-forge make`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the translationtool@1.0.0 make script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\hof\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-08-16T17_22_38_459Z-debug.log

Steps to reproduce

Be on a Windows machine using Parallels and use cmd:

> npx create-electron-app@latest my-app
> dir my-app
> npm i @electron-forge/maker-squirrel@beta -d
> npm run make

Additional information

I tried using maker-squirrel and maker-wix. But the issue seems to happen before any maker is even called.

[ferdinandhof]

Fixed the issue. It was due to Webpack running into an “Cannot read property ‘length’ of null” error when trying to pack “xlsx” dependency. I added a “?” as a hot fix in line 174 in innerOriginalLine <= originalSourceLines?.length. See https://github.com/webpack/webpack-sources/pull/133 for the long term solution when there is one.

[malept]

Don’t install from the beta tag, install from latest.