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Installer not creating application menu entry

See original GitHub issue

electron-builder 19.5.1

electron-updater 1.16.0

build target: **windows multiarch (–win --ia32 --x64) **. Building on windows 10 64bit

The issue started when upgrading electron-builder from version 17.8.0 to 19.5.1 running npm install throws two errors:

UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY ajv@5.2.0 (which i fixed by wrriting “ajv”: “5.2.0” to my devDependecies)
⚠️ Please use as subcommand: electron-builder install-app-deps

then building my installer with build --win --ia32 --x64 --publish never runs as expected. When executing the installer it runs without errors or warnings but still no application menu entry is created. if the program was already installed the entry gets deleted. Therefore auto updating does also not work.

package.json

...

 "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "1.6.9",
    "electron-builder": "19.5.1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "3.2.1",
    "electron-debug": "1.1.0",
    "electron-updater": "1.16.0",
    "electron-publisher-s3": "18.3.0",
    "color": "1.0.3"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "install-app-deps",
    "start": "electron . --dev",
    "start-prod": "electron .",
    "build": "build --win --x64 --publish always",
    "build-multiarch": "build --win --ia32 --x64 --publish always",
    "build-multiarch-no-upload": "build --win --ia32 --x64 --publish never"
  },
  "build": {
    "forceCodeSigning": false,
    "nsis": {
      "allowToChangeInstallationDirectory": false
    },
    "directories": {
      "output": "dist"
    },
    "publish": {
      "provider": "s3",
      "bucket": "desktop.app",
      "path": "desktop-app"
    }
  }
}