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Node modules, that must be unpacked, are not detected automatically

See original GitHub issue

Electron-Builder Version: 22.11.4

Node Version: 14.17.6

Electron Version: 18.0.3
Electron Type (current, beta, nightly):

Target: any

electron-builder does not unpack node modules in vector-im/element-desktop. "asarUnpack": "**/*.node", helps as a workaround. As far as I understand they “yarn link” those two node_modules from build directory to the project directory, which makes them symlinks instead of normal directories. Could this be preventing electron-builder from unpacking them?

For your reference: vector-im/element-desktop#337

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Created a year ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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ilu33commented, Apr 17, 2022

We are having the same problem: https://github.com/WowUp/WowUp/issues/1125

Several other projects too actually, f.e. https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/556

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mmaiettacommented, Apr 13, 2022

That sounds like a similar environment/situation as to what pnpm uses. The upstream package is https://github.com/develar/app-builder that parses the dependency tree to generate the list to copy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to handle symlinks AFAICT

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