How to package this starter-app

[wushan]

I am new to electron and I just tried to use electron-packager to make an executable app with electron-packager . Although there isn't any error messages but the app generated is not usable.

How should I do to build this app on desktop ? did I missing any configs ?

Thanks for answering.

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[detrohutt]

What operating system are you using? I'll see if I can get it working and make an example for you to follow.

[wushan]

OS X and thank you ! detrohutt <notifications@github.com>於 2017年3月17日 週五，上午1:51寫道：

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[detrohutt]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it working today. :( I'll have to mess around with it some more when I have time. But it's nothing you did wrong, it's just a problem with this project currently.

[wushan]

Any news about this ?

[detrohutt]

I was able to narrow the problem down to a conflict between the Nuxt.render middleware function and Electron. Unfortunately I'm still not able to solve the problem. My Mac OS debugging skills aren't that great.. I've made a reproduction of the issue here in case @atinux or anyone more familiar with Nuxt.render/Mac debugging has time to take a look. Sorry, I wish I could have been of more help! :/

[atinux]

Ok this is really weird, I can launch the app from the command line:

./electron-example-darwin-x64/electron-example.app/Contents/MacOS/electron-example 

Nuxt is working and the app as well, if I click on the icon, the app quit after 2 seconds, do you have the same problem @wushan ?

[wushan]

Yes, and the problem is that it quit without any error message .... Sébastien Chopin <notifications@github.com> 於 2017年3月24日 週五 上午10:08寫道：

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Ok this is really weird, I can launch the app from the command line: ./electron-example-darwin-x64/electron-example.app/Contents/MacOS/electron-example Nuxt is working and the app as well, if I click on the icon, the app quit after 2 seconds, do you have the same problem @wushan <https://github.com/wushan> ? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADdx3E0mcch3f2wy8Lyfb9KNs4_5YL-Wks5royWlgaJpZM4MeyGc> .

[atinux]

Ok I found how to launch the logs:

open ./electron-example-darwin-x64/electron-example.app/Contents/MacOS/electron-example 

I will investigate

[detrohutt]

@atinux yes I added the 2 second delay to make it obvious what line was causing the crash(see the Readme.md on that branch).. From messing with it before the most I could figure is that electron-packager modifies the environment variables and is leaving out something required by Nuxt.render. But I was never able to see any actual error messages so that is just a guess.

[atinux]

@detrohutt the actual error is:

> No build files found, please run `nuxt build` before launching `nuxt start`

So Nuxt.js cannot launch himself, because I believe the .nuxt folder has not been included by electron-packager

[atinux]

I found the solution, when we launch the application via the icon, process.cwd() used by Nuxt.js to know which directory it has been launched is different.

You can apply the fix by adding this line: 3f16652

[detrohutt]

Amazing. Thanks so much for your help. It's embarrassing how much time I spent trying to fix it lol. I guess it helps to know what you're doing. :D

[atinux]

It helps indeed, but I had to look at some issue of electron-packager to be sure, but thanks a lot for making the issue-1-repro branch, it helped me a lot to fix the bug (I never used electron-packager before)!

I updated the master branch to add electron-packager 👍

[wushan]

Thank you all ! Now I am going to play this around. thanks a lot ! Sébastien Chopin <notifications@github.com> 於 2017年3月24日 週五 上午10:53寫道：

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It helps indeed, but I had to look at some issue of electron-packager to be sure, but thanks a lot for making the issue-1-repro branch, it helped me a lot to fix the bug (I never used electron-packager before)! I updated the master branch to add electron-packager 👍 — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADdx3PMjLn-5zhHrijShys0Ab0I5hD9Eks5rozAPgaJpZM4MeyGc> .