Packaging for Windows from Mac

[soorajvnair]

Hey there,

Great work on the package. I used your native module on my Electron App and it works perfectly well during development, but as soon as i try to package your Native Module from a non target OS,
i.e Packaging for Windows from a Mac machine. The resulting executable fails to run on Windows and shows the following error, the error varies according to the ASAR setting.

This is a well known issue amongst people who try to package for all platforms from a single platform. There are many hacks and solutions to make this work however, the most promising one
is perhaps https://www.npmjs.com/package/prebuild which lets you generate prebuilt binaries
for the different platforms. Will help a lot of folks like me.

Is this something you'll be looking into at some point or are you already working on it?

Thanks again.

[bithavoc]

@soorajvnair Hi. I can't say I have plans to offer pre-build binaries for this module, I use buddybuild to build the Mac app and CircleCI for the linux build. I haven't figure out how to do windows builds, but, we're already using appveyor for CI in this module and I'm considering getting an account to build my app.

Sorry 😞

[soorajvnair]

No worries @bithavoc thanks again for the great work. :)

[digitalstaub]

got it with:
npm i git+https://github.com/CudoVentures/node-desktop-idle.git#prebuild

[bithavoc]

I'm re-opening this issue to keep track of this need, I should be able to setup CI to upload prebuild binaries. I need to read more about it.

[digitalstaub]

yasss!
this package is great work and it should work out of the box for every build os.

i think it's nothing more than to merge and adjust the modifications in package json. then prebuild -all --upload <gh-token> on all os.

i can help with building on mac or linux if its needed.

[timfish]

This might be of use:
https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/prebuild-this

[ericwooley]

I know this is old, but this might be a lot easier now with github actions supporting osx, linux, and windows builds. 🤷‍♂️