Build on an armv7l architecture ends up with "Cannot set machine from deb_arch 'armv7l'

• Version: electron-builder@20.28.4

electron-update@3.0.3

• Target: Linux (armv7l) for AppImage

Hello everyone, I am trying to build my app with electron builder and publish it to my github repo, so I use the command electron-builder --linux --armv7l -p always but it ends with a “Cannot set machine from deb_arch armv7l”. Then, my app cannot be published and the file “latest-linux-arm.yml” is not generated. Any advice ? Thanks !

[jtc42]

Just in case it helps at all, we’re currently building a project for Raspberry Pi, both .deb and AppImage, using the electron-builder config:

extends: app/builder-config-base.yaml
electronVersion: 3.0.13
linux:
  target:
    - target: deb
      arch:
        - armv7l
    - target: appImage
      arch:
        - armv7l
  icon: app/icons/png/
  category: Science
deb:
  fpm: ['--architecture', 'armhf']

This has been working on a Ubuntu x64 machine, WSL on a Windows machine, and on our GitLab CI. Everything builds and runs just fine on Raspbian Stretch and Buster, tested on Pi 2, 3, and 4.

It looks like Raspbian Buster actually includes an updated glibc so it may even be that you can build with newer versions of Electron. I’ll be trying that soon.

[develar]

Is this with native node modules too?

No, this bloody situation when one arch is named differently for each tool (node, go, linux, package convention and so on) doesn’t affect node modules because historically I did mistake and started to implement electron-builder in NodeJS instead of Go, so, node platform arch name is first in this name chain 😃

node-gyp does not support cross compilation so we’re still building our native modules and packaging on the Pi.

You just need to ask author of such module to use https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild If it is your own code, then yeach, no way (yes, soon free electron-build service will support ARM in addition to x64, but I am not going to support NodeJS native modules for security reasons, only platform packages for deb/snap/etc will be supported)).