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I am writing an react-electron application and I noticed that when I used electron-builder to build it the binary was stuck when calling "spawn".

With "yarn start" the application can be executed without problems. Only with electron-builder it gets stuck.

Can you help ?

Thanks,

Update

It seems that the C++ binary included as part of the program can't be executed within electron. If I give the hardcoded full path to the binary it works but if I give the path from __dirname I get an error

Hello have been trying to extract and repack an app.asar to update files inside the package :

await asar.extractAll(path.join(__dirname, './app.asar'),path.join(__dirname, './destfolder'));

Then changing some files in destfolder then

await asar.createPackage(path.join(__dirname, './destfolder'),path.join(__dirname, './app.asar'));

But i have been getting this error :

I'm cresting electron app using node-canvas.
I generated an app-installer by the following command:

$ electron-builder --mac --x64 --config ./build_mac.js

build_mac.js

I am tring merge wiki.js with electron
and, I can make simple electron application as below code

main.js

I changed my workspace to Ubuntu recently, and I encountered the crashing problem.

The vscode was installed by apt. And it could be open for a few seconds, then it crashes automatically.

I tried to figure it out with the code --verbose command. It shows

I am trying to release an electron app on the Mac Apple Store (mas), my electron app uses ffmpeg to render videos. In order to release my app on the mac apple store, It needs to be sandboxed, and by default ffmpeg makes calls to external libraries so I need to statically build ffmpeg and package it with my app. My code is on the 'mas-ffmpeg-fix' branch: https://github.com/MartinBarker/digify/tree/mas-ffmpeg-fix

My static ffmpeg build works before I build my app, but after running electron-builder build --mac, the ffmpeg executable now fails with Illegal instruction: 4

This is the full timeline of building/packaging/submitting my app to the mac apple store and where the error first appears:

• In Digify repo:

• clone, configure, and build static ffpmeg: “sudo rm -rf ffmpeg-mac/ && npm run download-ffmpeg”

• download-ffmpeg command is inside package.json and runs this: git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg-mac && cd ffmpeg-mac && ./configure pkg_config='pkg-config --static' --pkg-config-flags='--static' --libdir=/usr/local/lib --extra-version=ntd_20150128 --disable-shared --disable-lzma --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-nonfree --enable-libass --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-static --enable-filters --enable-runtime-cpudetect && make && cd ..

• Check if any dylibb files in the static ffmpeg build with command: “otool -L ffmpeg-mac/ffmpeg | grep /usr/local”

• If there are any, move them to folder in desktop, run ‘otool’ again to ensure there are no dynamic libraries, rebuild static ffmpeg.

• there will now be a folder 'ffmpeg-mac' which contains static versions of ffmpeg and ffprobe

Using ffmpeg with electron UI: works Using Ffmpeg with command-line command: /Users/martinbarker/Documents/projects/digify-new/ffmpeg-mac/ffmpeg -h Works

• Build mac mass app with “npm run build-mas“
• When this command finishes it will output two files inside the /dist/mas/ folder: Digify.app and Digify-01.20.pkg (or whatever version number it is) Ffmpeg command-line check: /Users/martinbarker/Documents/projects/digify-new/dist/mas/Digify.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -h Illegal instruction: 4

This is the first place the error appears, after building my mac mac-apple-store app, ffmpeg fails with this err.

• Sign built app with .sh file: “sh mas-sign-script.sh” view .sh file here
  • the .sh file will output Digify-mac.pkg
• Easier command to both build & sign: “sudo rm -rf dist/mas/ && npm run build-mas && sh mas-sign-script.sh”
• Upload the outputted “Digify-mac.pkg” file & submit to apple for review

Once this app gets published in the store, if you download it and try to run an ffmpeg command with the electron UI, it fails with this error:

I have an electron app that run perfectly into a dev environment with logs engine that write into file (with winston.js).

The structure of the project is this :

When I run electron-builder for packaging my app I have this struture :

• my app.asar file is into Resources directory
• my logs files are into data/logs

In dev environment I access to logs file with this winston config :

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I'm using electron-builder to build the app by the way

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