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Cannot build Squirrel.Windows target if & in the app name

See original GitHub issue

While building on windows and targeting windows I am receiving the following error:

 "Error: 2016-06-16 13:55:42> Unhandled exception: System.Xml.XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 11, position 25."

full error

When running the dist task on package.json. I am following the 2 package.json file approach and I am not using any config option so far. Do I have to do anything else to build on windows?

PS: I am using ^5.4.2

Thanks.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:10 (6 by maintainers)

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drFabiocommented, Jun 16, 2016

Changed just the company name as i did not want it to appear on google searchs. I just realized what ti might be. The name had an “&” char on it which was breaking the XML. Thanks!

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develarcommented, Jan 20, 2017

@initPRAGMA just use nsis target (default target for Windows now).

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