nsis - portable & installer

• Version: 14.5.3
• Target: win64 - nsis/portable

When you are building both portable and installer, building fails. I’m using electron-builder@14.5.3

Exception: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. package.json:

    "win": {
      "target": ["nsis", "portable"],
    },
    "nsis": {
      "unicode": false,
      "artifactName": "${productName}Installer.${version}.${ext}",
    }

I suppose both output have the same artifactName and the same temporary file name (.nsis.7z), Can we also have a new file macro depending on installer-portable version we are building? ${productName}${buildTarget}.${version}.${ext}

Thanks

[kossolax]

I’ve updated to 15.4.2, but building still fail. I suppose your previous patch fix when you don’t set a artifactName at all. Sorry to insist, but it’s look like we don’t understand each others.

If I build only a portable version it works. If I build only a nsis installer version it works. If I build both at the same time by setting “target”: [“nsis”, “portable”]" it still doesn’t work.

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I’m pretty sure it’s because both process run in parallel, and both trying to build the archive with the same temporary name “designer-0.5.1-x64.nsis.7z”. Please note the “temporary name” is not the same as the final artifact name. “DesignerInstaller.0.5.1.exe”

I hope this clarify issue.

[kossolax]

Hello again, The issue is still present on lastest release, but the issue is only present when you specify a custom artifact name.

Otherwise the compilation produce correctly the 2 outputs.

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/packages/electron-builder/src/targets/nsis.ts#L132

But it doesn’t with that’s kind of config:

    "nsis": {
      "artifactName": "${productName}Installer.${version}.${ext}",
      "installerIcon": "resources/images/logo.ico",
      "installerHeaderIcon": "resources/images/logo.ico",
    },
    "portable": {
      "artifactName": "${productName}Portable.${version}.${ext}"
    }

I hope this help.