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Cannot find module error after installer creation

See original GitHub issue

What version of electron-installer-windows are you using? 0.2.0

What version of node and npm are you using? 6.1.0 and 3.8.6

What operating system are you using? Windows 10

Can you compile the example app successfully? Yes

What did you do? Please include the configuration you are using for electron-installer-windows.

{
  "src": "./out/AppName-win32-x64/",
  "dest": "./out/installers/",
  "iconUrl": "https://url/img/icon.ico",
  "icon": "./assets/images/logo.ico",
  "tags": [
    "Tag 1",
    "Tag2",
    "Tag3"
  ]
}

The installer is run with: electron-installer-windows --src ./out/AppName-win32-x64/ --dest ./out/installers/ --config config.json

What did you expect to happen? Everything should work the same as when I start the app from the CLI.

What actually happened? When running the .exe I get an error:

I think it’s something to do with the windows-shortcuts node_module, but when I run the app before creating the installer everything works fine. When I try and run the installer it errors saying that the windows-shortcuts node_module could not be found.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8

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ahallickscommented, May 20, 2016

Okay, I don’t know what has happened but it now works fine! I switched to running via a script instead of command line through npm run and everything now works fine. I’ll keep doing some testing to make sure.

I also made windows-shortcuts an optional dependency so that I could build on OSX too, but again I don’t think that will have changed anything. It’s definitely working.

Annoyingly I don’t know what else I changed that might have made a difference. Sorry about that and thanks for your help on this and the awesome script!

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unindentedcommented, May 20, 2016

No worries. Good luck with your project.

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