Windows build Error: "The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)"

[KaeruCT]

Describe the bug

The build seems to fail. However, I look into the src-tauri\target\release directory, and an app.exe file is there. I ran it and it works perfectly.

C:\Users\villarrealA\Documents\Software\frontend>dir src-tauri\target\release
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is xxx

 Directory of C:\Users\villarrealA\Documents\Software\frontend\src-tauri\target\release

28/06/2021  11:58    <DIR>          .
28/06/2021  11:58    <DIR>          ..
28/06/2021  11:41                 0 .cargo-lock
28/06/2021  11:41    <DIR>          .fingerprint
28/06/2021  11:58             4,975 app.d
28/06/2021  12:11         6,685,184 app.exe
28/06/2021  12:11         4,526,080 app.pdb
28/06/2021  11:41    <DIR>          build
28/06/2021  12:11    <DIR>          deps
28/06/2021  11:41    <DIR>          examples
28/06/2021  11:41    <DIR>          incremental
               4 File(s)     11,216,239 bytes
               7 Dir(s)  319,075,692,544 bytes free

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Run npm run tauri build

C:\Users\villarrealA\Documents\Software\frontend>npm run tauri build

> @xxx/frontend@1.28.2 tauri
> tauri "build"

 app:spawn Running "C:\Users\villarrealA\Documents\Software\frontend\node_modules\@tauri-apps\cli\bin\tauri-cli.exe tauri build" +0ms

   Compiling app v0.1.0 (C:\Users\villarrealA\Documents\Software\frontend\src-tauri)
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 26.32s
Error: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)

 app:spawn Command "C:\Users\villarrealA\Documents\Software\frontend\node_modules\@tauri-apps\cli\bin\tauri-cli.exe" failed with exit code: 1 +1ms

Expected behavior

I expected the build to have an exit code 0, with no errors in the output.

Screenshots

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Platform and Versions (required):

Operating System - Windows, version 10.0.19041 X64
Webview2 - 91.0.864.59

Node.js environment
  Node.js - 16.4.0
  @tauri-apps/cli - 1.0.0-beta.3
  @tauri-apps/api - 1.0.0-beta.3

Global packages
  npm - 7.18.1
  yarn - Not installed

Rust environment
  rustc - 1.53.0
  cargo - 1.53.0

App directory structure
/.git
/build
/ci
/config
/docs
/lib
/localization
/node_modules
/src
/src-tauri
/test

App
  tauri.rs - 1.0.0-beta.2
  build-type - bundle
  CSP - default-src blob: data: filesystem: ws: wss: http: https: tauri: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' 'self' img-src: 'self'
  distDir - ../build
  devPath - http://localhost:8080
  framework - React
  bundler - Webpack

Additional context

Using the same repo and setup I also built this on WSL (v1). It works perfectly there.

npm run tauri build

> @xxx/frontend@1.28.2 tauri
> tauri "build"

 app:spawn Running "/home/avi/Projects/frontend/node_modules/@tauri-apps/cli/bin/tauri-cli tauri build" +0ms

   Compiling app v0.1.0 (/home/avi/Projects/frontend/src-tauri)
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 28.50s
    Bundling xxx-frontend_0.1.0_amd64.deb
    Bundling xxx-frontend_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage
    Finished 2 bundles at:
        /home/avi/Projects/frontend/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/xxx-frontend_0.1.0_amd64.deb
        /home/avi/Projects/frontend/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/appimage/xxx-frontend_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage

Stack Trace

[lucasfernog]

Any chance you can give us an app to reproduce it?

[KaeruCT]

Hi Lucas, thanks for your help!

I have created a smaller app in which the issue still happens https://github.com/KaeruCT/tauri-win-issue-2101

[lucasfernog]

You can't have slashes on the productName since the app executable is renamed to that string. I've improved the error message though.