Single squirrel installer for Windows 32 and 64 bit architectures

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Is it possible to make a single windows installer for both ia32 and x64 architectures? When running

electron-forge make --arch=ia32,x64

“Making for the following targets:” fails with error: An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge: Couldn't find packaged app at: C:\Users\noah\Documents\MQ\QBEA\MedQest-Qbank-Electron\out\MQ-QBank-win32-ia32,x64 Error: Couldn't find packaged app at: C:\Users\noah\Documents\MQ\QBEA\MedQest-Qbank-Electron\out\MQ-QBank-win32-ia32,x64 at _loop$ (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\dist\api\make.js:229:29) at tryCatch (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:64:40) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:299:22) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:116:21) at tryCatch (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:64:40) at maybeInvokeDelegate (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:361:18) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:273:32) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\regenerator-runtime\runtime.js:116:21) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.tryCatcher (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23) at PromiseSpawn._promiseFulfilled (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\generators.js:97:49) at Promise._settlePromise (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:574:26) at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:614:10) at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:693:18) at Async._drainQueue (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:133:16) at Async._drainQueues (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:143:10) at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\electron-forge\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:17:14)

Packaging results in two folders, ia32 and x64 under out/make/squirrel.windows. Is there are way to make them together into one installer?

Alternatively, can publish be configured to build each installer separately and publish the output to two different s3 folders?

[develar]

electron-builder since 16.1.0 supports compiling electron-forge projects (electron-compile is supported) To get one installer for both archs, you can use or nsis target, or nsis-web (https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/NSIS#32-bit--64-bit).

can publish be configured to build each installer separately and publish the output to two different s3 folders

electron-builder allows you to specify publish config for target (nsis or nsisWeb), including macro support (but ${arch} macro is not available since nsis produces single installer for both archs).

Or you can use nsis target for electron-forge — https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-forge-maker-nsis

[MarshallOfSound]

@noahott On windows all 32bit programs can run on 64bit windows but not vice-versa. If you want a single installer that will run on both, you need to use the 32bit version of your program 👍