[bug] failed to compile `icons/icon.ico` into a Windows Resource file during tauri-build

[zhangkuangwen]

Describe the bug

This happens when you run and when you pack

error: failed to run custom build command for app v0.1.0 (C:\Users\19915\Desktop\rust\hello-tauri\src-tauri)

Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: C:\Users\19915\Desktop\rust\hello-tauri\src-tauri\target\release\build\app-818444f0d448be51\build-script-build (exit code: 101)
--- stdout
cargo:rerun-if-changed=tauri.conf.json
package.metadata does not exist

--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at 'error found during tauri-build: Error {
context: "failed to compile icons/icon.ico into a Windows Resource file during tauri-build",
source: Error {
kind: NotFound,
message: "program not found",
},
}', C:\Users\19915.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\tauri-build-1.0.0-rc.5\src\lib.rs:146:5
note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace

Reproduction

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Expected behavior

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Platform and versions

Platform is the window   @tauri-apps/cli:^1.0.0-rc.8  @tauri-apps/api: "^1.0.0-rc.3"

Stack trace

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Additional context

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[lucasfernog]

Did you follow the WIndows setup guide? https://tauri.studio/docs/getting-started/setting-up-windows

[zhangkuangwen]

yse

[lucasfernog]

Can you share the output of rustup target list? I think you're using gnu but it's tricky, you should try using x86_64-pc-windows-msvc instead.

[lucasfernog]

I think the error is happening here: https://github.com/mxre/winres/blob/1807bec3552cd2f0d0544420584d6d78be5e3636/lib.rs#L584 it tries to run ./windres.exe from CWD and it does not find that executable.

[lucasfernog]

If you really really really want to use the gnu target all we can do is expose set_windres_path.

[igorsimko]

I stumbled upon same problem yesterday. Issue was that I didn't follow the order of steps in Windows setup guide which @lucasfernog mentioned. I firstly installed rust and then installed Microsoft Visual Studio C++ build tools.

I solved it by uninstalling Rust rustup self uninstall and Microsoft Visual Studio C++ build tools, and installing them in correct order. First Microsoft Visual Studio C++ build tools and then Rust.

Not sure what was really happening there but maybe it will help you as well.

[lucasfernog]

AFAIK it was really the gnu target, solved in Discord.

[pakinming]

add text to file tauri.conf.json, I can fixed this error

{
  "tauri": {
    "allowlist": {
      "path": {
        "all": true, // enable all Path APIs
      }
    }
  }
}

``

• › Node.js: 16.15.0
• › npm: 8.5.5
• › pnpm: Not installed!
• › yarn: 1.22.18
• › rustup: 1.24.3
• › rustc: 1.60.0
• › cargo: 1.60.0
• › Rust toolchain: stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc``

[langyo]

There is another way to avoid this exception.

I've tried to rewrite the build script in build.rs, then make a new icon in a new dictionary res, and it looks well.

use tauri_build::{try_build, Attributes, WindowsAttributes};

fn main() {
  if let Err(error) = try_build(
    Attributes::new()
      .windows_attributes(WindowsAttributes::new().window_icon_path("res/icon.ico")),
  ) {
    panic!("Error: {}", error);
  }
}

The reason that causes the exception is here. The compiler provides a default path icons/icon.ico, and this property is required.

By the way, we usually need to provide an icon to compiler to build the program, but Tauri's document didn't give the information about it. I think it should be mentioned in the document. 😊 @lucasfernog

[lucasfernog]

@langyo can you file an issue so we don't forget about it?

[liudonghua123]

I have the similar problems when execute yarn tauri android build.

D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app>where windres.exe
C:\msys64\usr\bin\windres.exe
C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe

D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app>set RUST_BACKTRACE=1

D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app>yarn tauri android build
yarn run v1.22.17
$ tauri android build
        Info detected host target triple "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"
     Running beforeBuildCommand `yarn build`
$ tsc && vite build
vite v4.1.4 building for production...
✓ 8 modules transformed.
dist/assets/vite-4a748afd.svg        1.50 kB
dist/assets/typescript-83ddfc20.svg  1.50 kB
dist/index.html                      1.60 kB
dist/assets/tauri-3f32698a.svg       2.61 kB
dist/assets/index-f79d40c2.css       1.26 kB │ gzip: 0.62 kB
dist/assets/index-b9d5a340.js        1.80 kB │ gzip: 0.94 kB
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8
Execution optimizations have been disabled for task ':app:rustBuildArm64Release' to ensure correctness due to the following reasons:
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: 'D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app\src-tauri'. Reason: Task ':app:rustBuildArm64Release' uses this output of task ':app:buildKotlinToolingMetadata' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending on what order the tasks are executed. Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/7.4/userguide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency for more details about this problem.
<-------------> 1% EXECUTING [1s]
> :app:rustBuildArm64Release                  Compiling wry v0.26.0TING [3s]
   Compiling tauri-app v0.0.0 (D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app\src-tauri)
   Compiling tauri-runtime-wry v0.13.0-alpha.1
   Compiling tauri v2.0.0-alpha.3]
error: failed to run custom build command for `tauri-app v0.0.0 (D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app\src-tauri)`       > :app:rustBuildArm64Release
Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app\src-tauri\target\release\build\tauri-app-84aeb785ecec4d58\build-script-build` (exit code: 1)
  --- stdout
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TAURI_CONFIG
  cargo:rerun-if-changed=tauri.conf.json
  cargo:rustc-cfg=mobile
  package.metadata does not exist
  "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\bin\\10.0.19041.0\\x64\\rc.exe"
  "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\bin\\10.0.22000.0\\x64\\rc.exe"
  failed to compile `icons/icon.ico` into a Windows Resource file during tauri-build: Can only compile resource file when target_env is "gnu" or "msvc"
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
       Error `Failed to run `cargo build`: Command "cargo build --package tauri-app --manifest-path D:\\code\\rust\\tauri-android\\tauri-app\\src-tauri\\Cargo.toml --target aarch64-linux-android --features custom-protocol --release --color always" didn't complete successfully, exiting with code 101.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:rustBuildArm64Release'.
> Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.

You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.

See https://docs.gradle.org/7.4/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

Execution optimizations have been disabled for 1 invalid unit(s) of work during this build to ensure correctness.
Please consult deprecation warnings for more details.

BUILD FAILED in 1m 11s
       Error Failed to assemble APK: Command "D:\\code\\rust\\tauri-android\\tauri-app\\src-tauri\\gen\\android\\tauri_app\\gradlew.bat --project-dir D:\\code\\rust\\tauri-android\\tauri-app\\src-tauri\\gen\\android\\tauri_app assembleUniversalRelease -PabiList=arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a,x86,x86_64 --warn" didn't complete successfully, exiting with code 1.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

D:\code\rust\tauri-android\tauri-app>