Building Mac applications on Windows generates no output

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Building Mac applications on Windows generates no output

stephnr opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

electron-packager . ${APP_NAME} --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=${ELECTRON_VERSION} --out=${OUTPUT_DIR}/mac64

Apparently the above command doesn't output anything

Max · Answer 1 · Wed Jun 17 2015 03:32:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, can you answer these questions to help us triage your issue? https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Stephen Rodriguez · Answer 2 · Wed Jun 17 2015 03:38:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Version: 4.1.3
CLI Arguments:
- Platform: Darwin
- Arch: x64
- Version: 0.28.1
- Out: /dist
Platform: Building for Mac

There was no stack trace.

juno suárez · Answer 3 · Wed Jun 17 2015 04:22:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Stephn-R to clarify, are you building on a mac as well?

Stephen Rodriguez · Answer 4 · Wed Jun 17 2015 05:09:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

no I am building on a windows machine

Norm McGarry · Answer 5 · Thu Jun 18 2015 00:09:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

+1 same issue, building mac on Windows. same params.

When running it with node, I get this error in the callback:

{ [Error: EXDEV, rename 'C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\electron-packager-mac\
AppName.app']
errno: 52,
code: 'EXDEV',
path: 'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\electron-packager-mac\\AppName.app' }`

juno suárez · Answer 6 · Thu Jun 18 2015 04:05:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ah, looks like a cross-device error which we've run into before. @normmcgarry is there a stack trace or a line number associated with that?

Norm McGarry · Answer 7 · Thu Jun 18 2015 04:09:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like electron-packager\mac.js:83:27

Trace: { [Error: EXDEV, rename 'C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\electron-packag
er-mac\AppName.app']
  errno: 52,
  code: 'EXDEV',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\electron-packager-mac\\AppName.app' }
    at s:\path-to-app\app\index.js:19:15
    at moved (s:\path-to-app\app\node_modules\electron-packager\mac.js:83:27)
    at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)

Mark Lee · Answer 8 · Thu Jun 18 2015 04:12:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Looks like #60. I'll file a PR later today.

Stephan Ahlf · Answer 9 · Thu Jun 18 2015 04:17:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Same Problem here...

Mark Lee · Answer 10 · Thu Jun 18 2015 04:30:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@s-a whose problem is the same as yours?

Stephan Ahlf · Answer 11 · Thu Jun 18 2015 05:18:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@malept same as Stephn r. I am on Windows too. I See you are on there. Just wrote a message to paticipate this issue and receive updates about this topic.

Kenneth G. Franqueiro · Answer 12 · Mon Jun 22 2015 01:48:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I"ve noticed more along the lines of what the original comment in this issue states, as well - even running on the OS drive of a Windows machine, if I tell electron to build for darwin, it seems to immediately exit after saying "Packaging app for platform darwin x64". No error is output whatsoever in this case. I'm hoping to trace through later today to see how far it's actually getting.

Kenneth G. Franqueiro · Answer 13 · Mon Jun 22 2015 03:24:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm finding that the process is dying silently in extract-zip when running with --platform=darwin on Windows. The call to extract never fires its callback. I'm wondering if this could have something to do with the OS X .app having symlinks in it?

Kenneth G. Franqueiro · Answer 14 · Mon Jun 22 2015 04:27:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yep...pretty sure it's the symlinks doing it. Just tested again on a Windows VM running as administrator, and it completes successfully there. (AFAIK Windows inexplicably requires elevation to create symlinks, yet doesn't to create junctions.)

Stephen Rodriguez · Answer 15 · Mon Jun 22 2015 05:56:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you @kfranqueiro for the confirmation. I can also confirm that building my app on OSX with the same command had no issues

Kenneth G. Franqueiro · Answer 16 · Mon Jun 22 2015 06:25:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The fs.symlink callback in writeSymlink in extract-zip/index.js reports an error, but that error is never properly passed to the callback passed to extract in electron-packager/index.js, so it gets entirely lost.

Kenneth G. Franqueiro · Answer 17 · Tue Jun 23 2015 11:14:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It occurs to me that even if you manage to get past the symlink issue when running electron-packager, I'm not sure you have too many options for actually packing the application up into a zip or anything either, because Windows trips on the symlinks there too (even with admin permissions).

Stephan Ahlf · Answer 18 · Thu Jul 02 2015 01:49:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

"build:macos": "npm run clean:macos && electron-packager ./app \"fileSharp\" --out=dist/macos --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=0.25.3 --icon=assets/macos/icon.icns"
Outputs nothing and fails silent.

"build:macos": "npm run clean:macos && electron-packager ./app \"fileSharp\" --out=dist/macos --platform=darwin --arch=ia32 --version=0.25.3 --icon=assets/macos/icon.icns",

returns

> npm run clean:macos && electron-packager ./app "fileSharp" --out=dist/macos --platform=darwin --arch=ia32 --version=0.25.3 --icon=assets/macos/icon.icns


> fileSharp@0.1.0 clean:macos C:\git\fileSharp
> rm -rf ./dist/macos

Downloading electron-v0.25.3-darwin-ia32.zip
Error: GET https://github.com/atom/electron/releases/download/v0.25.3/electron-v0.25.3-darwin-ia32.zip returned 404
[ [Error: GET https://github.com/atom/electron/releases/download/v0.25.3/electron-v0.25.3-darwin-ia32.zip returned 404] ] undefined

let me know if I can test something out

Stephen Rodriguez · Answer 19 · Thu Jul 02 2015 01:53:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@s-a The Darwin v0.25.3 ia32 package does not exist. Selected versions and architectures should match those that exist in the Electron releases.

Ref: Electron Releases

Stephan Ahlf · Answer 20 · Thu Jul 02 2015 02:08:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Stephn-R Thanks for this info . osx is not my world 😄

Mark Lee · Answer 21 · Wed Sep 09 2015 11:25:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Since @kfranqueiro added the warning message when symlinks cannot be copied, it "fixes" the original bug of there not being any output when building on Windows for the target OSX platform. I don't know what else we want to do here, other than perhaps close this and create a new bug that adds docs about building on Windows for OSX.

englishextra · Answer 22 · Sun Jan 17 2016 09:44:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Why switching the issue into symlinks discussion?

I have same failure building for darwin x64

The electron-v0.35.0-darwin-x64.zip has been downloaded succefully and then cmd on win 10 exits.

Andrea Stella · Answer 23 · Tue Mar 29 2016 06:38:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sorry for being that guy but... Any update or workaround for this?

Building for darwin does absolutely nothing 😿

Mark Lee · Answer 24 · Tue Mar 29 2016 06:53:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

We need a community member who uses Windows to debug this. I don't believe any of the current maintainers has consistent access to a Windows development environment.

Kenneth G. Franqueiro · Answer 25 · Tue Mar 29 2016 08:19:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have access to Windows and I'm who added the "skip" workaround to begin with. Windows requires elevation to create symlinks, but even then, I haven't managed to properly create archives out of builds that would seem to retain symlinks the same way they're retained on other platforms. So I've been at a loss as to whether there's really a real "solution" to this other than "build for OS X on OS X or Linux".

(Also, even though I do have a couple of machines running Windows, I've also done Electron app testing in a modern.ie VM on a MBP, which is something anyone can do.)

Mark Lee · Answer 26 · Tue Mar 29 2016 08:25:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This might be worth documenting somewhere, either in the readme or as a runtime warning.

Doğan Çelik · Answer 27 · Tue Jan 01 2019 19:14:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Electron-packager fails when building for Darwin (on Windows host).
I used to create Mac packages successfully on version 8.7.2.
I'm running cmd.exe as Admin.

Similar issues: #164 and my comment from 2016 (symlink was working)

# npx electron-packager --version
Electron Packager 13.0.1
Node v11.3.0
Host Operating system: win32 (x64)

# npx electron-packager . --platform=win32 --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0
Packaging app for platform win32 x64 using electron v4.0.0
Wrote new app to d:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-win32-x64

# npx electron-packager . --platform=linux --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0
Packaging app for platform linux x64 using electron v4.0.0
Wrote new app to d:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-linux-x64

# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
EPERM: operation not permitted, stat 'C:\Users\dogan\AppData\Local\Temp\electron-packager\darwin-x64\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Atomic TweetDeck.app\Contents\Frameworks\Squirrel.framework\Versions\Current'

# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0 --no-tmpdir
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
Cannot copy '.' to a subdirectory of itself, 'd:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Electron.app\Contents\Resources\app'.

# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0 --no-tmpdir -out=build
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
Cannot copy '.' to a subdirectory of itself, 'd:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Electron.app\Contents\Resources\app'.

# I set a parent directory as build folder: "..\build"
# npx electron-packager . --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --electron-version=4.0.0 --no-tmpdir -out=..\build
Packaging app for platform darwin x64 using electron v4.0.0
Cannot copy '.' to a subdirectory of itself, 'd:\Projects\Public\atomic-tweetdeck\master\Atomic TweetDeck-darwin-x64\Electron.app\Contents\Resources\app'.

Mark Lee · Answer 28 · Wed Jan 02 2019 05:32:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It probably has something to do with the fact that your app directory is on one drive and the temp directory is on the other. Also, it's --out, not -out.