Unable to build on windows with 22.10.5

• Version: 22.10.5

• Electron Version: 11.1.1

• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

• Target: windows

Building on an Azure DevOps build server. I have 2 builds and the only difference between a working and an non-working is the electron-builder version and that its a Windows target. The macos target builds fine.

working: electron-builder 22.9.1 not working: 22.10.5

here are the outputs. I’ll truncate the stacktrace as it doesn’t really have any value being repetative.

WORKING

D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand>npx electron-builder --config=./bin/electron-builder.json --win --x64 -c.electronVersion=11.1.1 
  • electron-builder  version=22.9.1 os=10.0.17763
  • artifacts will be published if draft release exists  reason=CI detected
  • loaded configuration  file=D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand\bin\electron-builder.json
  • description is missed in the package.json  appPackageFile=D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand\package.json
  • packaging       platform=win32 arch=x64 electron=11.1.1 appOutDir=D:\a\1\s\dist\win-unpacked
  • downloading     url=https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v11.1.1/electron-v11.1.1-win32-x64.zip size=78 MB parts=8
  • downloaded      url=https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v11.1.1/electron-v11.1.1-win32-x64.zip duration=3.946s
  • downloading     url=https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder-binaries/releases/download/winCodeSign-2.6.0/winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z size=5.6 MB parts=1
  • downloaded      url=https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder-binaries/releases/download/winCodeSign-2.6.0/winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z duration=567ms
  • building        target=nsis file=D:\a\1\s\dist\stackify-prefix.exe archs=x64 oneClick=true perMachine=false
  • downloading     url=https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder-binaries/releases/download/nsis-3.0.4.1/nsis-3.0.4.1.7z size=1.3 MB parts=1
  • downloaded      url=https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder-binaries/releases/download/nsis-3.0.4.1/nsis-3.0.4.1.7z duration=352ms
  • downloading     url=https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder-binaries/releases/download/nsis-resources-3.4.1/nsis-resources-3.4.1.7z size=731 kB parts=1
  • downloaded      url=https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder-binaries/releases/download/nsis-resources-3.4.1/nsis-resources-3.4.1.7z duration=405ms
  • building block map  blockMapFile=D:\a\1\s\dist\stackify-prefix.exe.blockmap
  ⨯ GitHub Personal Access Token is not set, neither programmatically, nor using env "GH_TOKEN"
D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand>
... done

NOT WORKING

D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand>npx electron-builder --config=./bin/electron-builder.json --win --x64 -c.electronVersion=11.1.1 
  • electron-builder  version=22.10.5 os=10.0.17763
  • artifacts will be published if draft release exists  reason=CI detected
  • loaded configuration  file=D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand\bin\electron-builder.json
  • description is missed in the package.json  appPackageFile=D:\a\1\s\src\Prefix-App\obj\desktop\-encodedCommand\package.json
  • packaging       platform=win32 arch=x64 electron=11.1.1 appOutDir=D:\a\1\s\dist\win-unpacked
  • Unpacking electron zip  zipPath=undefined
  • downloading     url=https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v11.1.1/electron-v11.1.1-win32-x64.zip size=78 MB parts=4
  • downloaded      url=https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v11.1.1/electron-v11.1.1-win32-x64.zip duration=1.812s
  ⨯ editions-autoloader-none-broadened: Unable to determine a suitable edition, even after broadening.  stackTrace=
                                                                                                          Error: editions-autoloader-none-broadened: Unable to determine a suitable edition, even after broadening.
                                                                                                              at new Errlop (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\errlop\edition-es5\index.js:61:18)
                                                                                                              at Object.errtion (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\editions\edition-es5\util.js:23:14)
                                                                                                              at determineEdition (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\editions\edition-es5\index.js:317:21)
                                                                                                              at solicitEdition (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\editions\edition-es5\index.js:350:16)
                                                                                                              at Object.requirePackage (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\editions\edition-es5\index.js:364:9)
                                                                                                              at Object.<anonymous> (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\istextorbinary\index.cjs:4:38)
                                                                                                              at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1118:30)
                                                                                                              at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1138:10)
                                                                                                              at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:982:32)
                                                                                                              at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:875:14)
                                                                                                              at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1022:19)
                                                                                                              at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:72:18)
                                                                                                              at Object.<anonymous> (C:\npm\prefix\node_modules\electron-builder\node_modules\app-builder-lib\electron-osx-sign\util.js:135:22)
                                                                                                              at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1118:30)
                                                                                                              at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1138:10)
                                                                                                              at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:982:32)
                                                                                                          ↳ Error: editions-autoloader-none-suitable: Unable to determine a suitable edition, as none were suitable.

[F-fengzi]

for all having this issue right now, downgrade your nodeJS to anything below 16.0 or downgrading electron-builder to 22.10.4 might fix it as well, not sure

[F-fengzi]

Thankfully this was fixed for me after downgrading NodeJS from 16.0.0 to 15.14.0.