Notes on Electron

If you are building GMEdit from source code and choosing to use Electron binaries rather than the ones that come from GMEdit's itch/GH releases, the following may prove useful:

Preparing binaries

Grab the pre-built binaries from GitHub.

Commonly you'll want:

• electron-v#-win32-ia32.zip (Windows 32-bit, for compatibility)
• electron-v#-darwin-x64 (Mac x64)
• electron-v#-linux-x64 (Linux x64)

Windows

• Rename /electron.exe to /Editor.exe
  (todo: pick a time to break people's shortcuts by renaming it to GMEdit.exe instead)
• Use Resource Hacker to replace Icon Group 1 by resources/app/favicon.ico
• Use Resource Hacker to edit Version Info 1 to have GMEdit data, like

   BLOCK "040904B0"
   {
   	VALUE "CompanyName", "YellowAfterlife"
   	VALUE "FileDescription", "GMEdit"
   	VALUE "FileVersion", "<keep Electron version>"
   	VALUE "InternalName", "Editor.exe"
   	VALUE "LegalCopyright", "(c) YellowAfterlife"
   	VALUE "OriginalFilename", "Editor.exe"
   	VALUE "ProductName", "GMEdit"
   	VALUE "ProductVersion", "<keep Electron version>"
   	VALUE "SquirrelAwareVersion", "1"
   }

Linux

• Rename /electron to /GMEdit.
• Add an empty file called GMEdit is an executable! because people get confused.

Mac

• Rename /Electron.app to /GMEdit.app
• Replace /GMEdit.app/Contents/Resources/electron.icns by the one from /art/icon/electron.icns

Packaging

All of the commands are to be executed in bin/ after doing the preceding steps;

Editor-App-Only:

7zip a Editor-App-Only.zip resources

Editor-Win:

Rename the win32 zip to be Editor-Win.zip;

7zip a Editor-Win.zip resources

Editor-Linux:

Rename the Linux zip to be Editor-Linux.zip;

7zip a Editor-Linux.zip resources

Editor-Mac:

Rename the Mac zip to be Editor-Mac.zip;

First-time setup (note: requires elevated command prompt):

mkdir GMEdit.app\Contents\Resources
mklink /D GMEdit.app\Contents\Resources\app resources\app

Subsequent packaging:

7zip a Editor-Mac.zip GMEdit.app

Uploading:

Not very useful unless you're me or doing a full-on fork, if we're being honest.

set /p ver=<buildnumber.txt
set /p date=<builddate.txt
gh release create "%ver%" Editor-Win.zip Editor-Linux.zip Editor-Mac.zip Editor-App-Only.zip -t "%date%"
itchio-butler push Editor-Win.zip yourname/gmedit:Editor --userversion-file builddate.txt
itchio-butler push Editor-Linux.zip yourname/gmedit:Editor-Linux --userversion-file builddate.txt
itchio-butler push Editor-Mac.zip yourname/gmedit:Editor-Mac --userversion-file builddate.txt
itchio-butler push Editor-App-Only.zip yourname/gmedit:Editor-App-Only --userversion-file builddate.txt

Further reading

• Breaking changes in Electron per-version