no shortcuts created anywhere

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

What version of node and npm are you using? node 7.7.4 npm 4.1.2 What operating system are you using? windows 7 Can you compile the example app successfully? yes

If not, paste here the output of the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/unindented/electron-installer-windows.git
$ cd electron-installer-windows/example
$ DEBUG='electron-installer-windows' npm run build

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

What did you expect to happen? Start menu or desktop shortcut What actually happened? Opens program but doesn’t provide option to reopen anywhere

Should there not be a start menu program created and possibly the option to create a desktop icon?

[fcastilloec]

For anybody that’s having problems with shortcuts. This module uses Squirrel at its core. It seems that people might not be handling Squirrel events that rise when installing the app. Your application is expected to handle all this events when installing, updating or uninstalling your app. If this is not done, then your app won’t exit properly (or at all) when installing it, which leads to not creating any shortcuts.

I suggest people use electron-squirrel-startup module, which automatically will handle all Squirrel events.

[fcastilloec]

@dachinat The only error I see in your code is iconUrl which has to be a URL and not a path. This icon is the one used for shortcuts, and because Windows can download it from the URL, it might not be creating the shortcut. Our README mentions that this has to be a URL. If that doesn’t solve it, please run your script with DEBUG=electron-installer-windows *your script* from bash (even for Windows, powershell and cmd don’t work the same), copy/paste the output to a gist and let me know the link here. Or even better just DM me on twitter (at)fcastillo because Github issues shouldn’t be for asking question