No dice: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'resources/app/package.json'

I might be misunderstanding some standard directory structure for all electron app, but I have a simple hello-world app on my local directory (from https://github.com/ungoldman/electron-hello-world) and I can run the app just fine with “electron .”

When I try to run windows-installer with following script

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

resultPromise = electronInstaller.createWindowsInstaller({
    appDirectory: '.',
    outputDirectory: '~/tmp',
    authors: 'My App Inc.',
    exe: 'myapp.exe'
  });

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

I get following error message.

$ node win.js 
No dice: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/hayashis/test/electron-hello-world/resources/app/package.json'

It looks like I am supposed to put all files under resources/app directory… But I can’t figure out where it comes from. Is it a standard to place everything under resources/app directory?

[MarshallOfSound]

You must first use a tool such as electron-packager to package the app into the structure that windows-installer expects.

[antonkarsten]

I had the same problems (on ubuntu). Two things solved it for me

1. install mono (http://www.mono-project.com/download/#download-lin)
2. make sure you build with electron-packager using the --asar=true switch (I had turned it of to be able to troubleshoot the result from the packager)