installer doesn't copy extra resources directories during installation

Hi! I have an issue with creating windows installer with electron-builder (see https://github.com/loopline-systems/electron-builder/issues/252) but electron-builder developer asked me to recreate issue here. The problem is: I use two-package.json project layout (package.json and app/package.json) and extra resources folders (for example with dlls) are not copied to installation path during installer run. Extra files are copied, there is no problems with them, but extra folders are not.

Also tried to move folders with dlls into app folder, but haven’t succeed: dlls folders are packaged into resources/app.asar but can’t be found and loaded on electron application startup.

[octavian-sandru]

I still don’t understand how to copy (during app instal) a given file from project’s root folder to the <userData> path, so that I can access it in my javascript like: let path = electron.app.getPath(‘userData’) + ‘settings.json’

is there an instruction we need to place in ‘build’ section of package.json ? NOTE: I’m using electron-builder to build the executable for app I want to install in Windows.

Thanks a lot !

[marcopiraccini]

Probably a more general solution would be to customize the template.nuspec. Adding -for instance:

    <file src="exe/**" target="lib/net45" />

…will add the folder as you expected. Putting hte exe folder outside the app folder will also avoid to have it put into app.asar.

To obtain that, it would be great to have the ability of using custom templates.