Windows is searching for program.exe

• Version: ^22.7.0

• Electron Version: ^8.0.0
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

• Target: NSIS

Running my installer I get a dialog that pops up that says “Windows is searching for Quotation Assistant.exe…” and it gives me the option to try and browse and find the exe myself.

If I let it continue trying to find the executable, it always fails.

I can browse and select the executable that is located at dist/win-unpacked/Quotation Assistant.exe and that will work until I try run the installer again and it fails.

In my AppData/Local/Programs/quotation-assistant folder, there is only the uninstaller present. I checked another program that I use electron-builder for, and it’s got a lot more files present (what looks like to be the contents of the win-unpacked folder).

I’ve done some searching already trying to fix this issue, and I’ve found the following issue: #4057 . That seems to be the closest I can find to what I’m getting. The solutions proposed in that issue do not work for me.

My current build settings:

	"build": {
		"appId": "quotation-assistant",
		"productName": "Quotation Assistant",
		"compression": "store",
		"asar": true,
		"win": {
			"target": {
				"target": "NSIS",
				"arch": [
					"x64",
					"arm64"
				]
			},
			"icon": "app/static/icons/win/icon.ico"
		},
		"files": [
			"!dist/*",
			"!dummy_root/*",
			"!screens/*",
			"!app/sass/*",
			"!.sass-cache/*",
			"!.vscode/*",
			"!package-lock.json",
			"!*.rb",
			"!*.sql"
		]
	},

This issue appears to occur on multiple computers as well, not just the computer I’m building on.

[alex-griffiths]

Running as administrator (both building and the installation) doesn’t seem to work.

I think it’s probably got something to do mainly with this block of package.json

"target": {
	"target": "NSIS",
	"arch": [
		"x64",
		"arm64"
	]
},

Which I pulled from the docs I think (it’s been a while and I originally did it for another project) so that I could build on ARM.

[Echo4F]

Can anyone be of help?