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Error: spawn npm ENOENT issue on Windows

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I’ve installed electron-build (3.1.1) on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 to be able to code-sign my application in Windows, but I keep on encountering this issue:

Installing app dependencies for arch ia32 to C:\Users\IEUser\Desktop\client\app
Error: spawn npm ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:890:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:182:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:348:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (node.js:383:13)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:407:11)

After modifying the util.ts file to use “npm.cmd” instead of “npm”, it looks like it runs now.

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

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kkaproncommented, Apr 8, 2016

@ykim I had the same problem on Windows 7. Modifying the util.ts file works, but I think that the cleaner way to handle this issue for now is to export environment variable. In my project (I’m using electron-builder in programmatic way) I just did: process.env.npm_execpath - "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm";

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develarcommented, Apr 9, 2016

@kkapron #272 fixed. Anything else?

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