pnpm monorepo build error

[gjfei]

• Electron-Builder Version: 23.0.3

• Node Version: 16.13.2

• Electron Version: 19.0.4
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly):

• Target: window

reproduction

[gjfei]

help me

[mmaietta]

Are we sure that is an issue with electron-builder? It seems to be saying your pnpm installation is not a valid win32 application. Can you try node 14 or a newer version of node 16?

[hipstersmoothie]

This is the same issue as this #6289

Which is because of this issue that's been fixed in app-builder develar/app-builder#63

But hasn't been pulled in because:

develar/app-builder#83
#6684

[mmaietta]

Does this workaround work correctly for monorepos?
https://www.electron.build/#note-for-pnpm

[hipstersmoothie]

Checking on that now. But using any of those options kills most of the usefulness of pnpm. Proper support would be a huge improvement. Is there an issue tracking that?

[mmaietta]

#6933 (comment)
We're blocked from updating by develar/app-builder#83

[MasterOdin]

I was running into a similar issue (reported as #7029), but with yarn, and had a similar root cause where the .yarn/releases/yarn-*.cjs file we had checked into our repo had a #!/usr/bin/env node shebang. I found that on changing the shebang to be just #!node, I was able to fix my build issues.

Perhaps possible to do a similar hack to pnpm/bin/pnpm.cjs file as an immediate workaround, though ideally could update app-builder and have that be fixed there.

[rafaberaldo]

Having the same problem, the workaround is calling pnpm electron-builder instead of a package script.

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I could make it work without the node-linker=hoisted (which is is the whole point of using pnpm) option, my .npmrc currently is:

strict-peer-dependencies=false
shamefully-hoist=true

I run the build process for the renderer, and then pnpm electron-builder -- calling it in script throws not a valid win32 application.

I also had to move electron-* packages (electron-updater, etc.) to deps instead of devDeps.

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Edit:

Tested in another env and it's actually not working without node-linker=hoisted. Maybe I had some leftover files in node_modules.

[kooriookami]

Still have this problem, I have to use npm build it.

[ramiel]

Why is this issue still present? The bugfix on app-builder should be deployed already

[mmaietta]

@ramiel because the dependency update is still broken
See: #7774

And comment requesting help from @develar to resolve the issue in app-builder
develar/app-builder#83 (comment)