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Cannot Build Windows Installer Exit Code 1

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I’m currently running into an issue with building the Windows Installer. When I try and build the installer I get this issue when running this code

SET DEBUG=electron-windows-installer:* & node build.js

 electron-windows-installer:spawn Spawning c:\Users\Nick\Desktop\New-Lab-Scale-Programs\hydro-lab-scale-2\node_modules\electron-winstaller\vendor\nuget.exe pack C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\si-11891-12640-1wcyjf7.btxqlrf6r\electron_quick_start.nuspec -BasePath ./electron_quick_start-win32-x64 -OutputDirectory C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\si-11891-12640-1wcyjf7.btxqlrf6r -NoDefaultExcludes +7ms

No dice: Failed with exit code: 1
Output:
Attempting to build package from 'electron_quick_start.nuspec'.
File not found: 'myapp.exe'.

Seems to fail once it gets to nuget.exe?

This is my build.js code:

var electronInstaller = require('electron-winstaller');

resultPromise = electronInstaller.createWindowsInstaller({
    appDirectory: './electron_quick_start_win32_x64',
    outputDirectory: './myinstallers',
    authors: 'TSC',
    exe: 'myapp.exe'
  });

resultPromise.then(() => console.log("It worked!"), (e) => console.log(`No dice: ${e.message}`));

Electron 3.0.2 Node 10.2.0 Chromium 66.0.3359.181

Also here’s my package.json if there is something wrong in there:

{
  "name": "electron_quick_start",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A minimal Electron application",
  "main": "main.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron .",
    "dist": "build"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start",
  "keywords": [
    "Electron",
    "quick",
    "start",
    "tutorial",
    "demo"
  ],
  "author": "GitHub",
  "license": "CC0-1.0",
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "^3.0.2",
    "electron-rebuild": "^1.8.2"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "debug": "^4.0.1",
    "electron-builder": "^20.28.4",
    "electron-squirrel-startup": "^1.0.0",
    "electron-winstaller": "^2.7.0",
    "node-gyp": "^3.8.0",
    "python": "0.0.4",
    "serialport": "^7.0.2"
  }
}

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

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nickabondcommented, Oct 2, 2018

Excellent observation @alexanderturinske! I had thought that was the output name I was choosing for the .exe and not the one I was inputting. Thanks very much, it works now!

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alexanderturinskecommented, Oct 2, 2018

Ah, thanks. Just for clarification, what is the name and filepath to your app exe? Based on the information above it should be ./electron_quick_start_win32_x64/myapp.exe; is that correct?

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