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Pass command line arguments to node-gyp

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I have an electron application which depends on a native module that I am writing.

When I run electron-forge package, it fails at Preparing native dependencies: 0/1:

gyp: Undefined variable BASE_DIR in binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp

I usually pass the BASE_DIR as a command line argument to node-gyp (this also works for npm install):

node-gyp rebuild --BASE_DIR=`pwd`
npm install ../addon --BASE_DIR=`pwd`

Is there a way to pass this command line argument with electron-forge? I have tried

electron-forge package --BASE_DIR=`pwd`

but this does not work:

$ electron-forge package --BASE_DIR=`pwd`
√ Checking your system
  error: unknown option `--BASE_DIR'

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Created 7 years ago
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MarshallOfSoundcommented, Feb 27, 2017

I believe they do in the case of node-gyp but I consider that unsafe as it means random args can flow down the spawn tree and cause unexpected behavior.

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MarshallOfSoundcommented, Apr 16, 2018

Closing this out as it should be tracked upstream in electron-rebuild if it isn’t already 👍

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