ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE

[MisterOryon]

I come to you because after several days of research I did not manage to correct this problem, when i try to create an nsis installer.
you will find attached my json file is the error.
if anyone has an answer to my problem please help me please.

node: v12.18.2
npm: 6.14.5

{
"name": "electron-quick-start",
"version": "2.0.0",
"description": "A minimal Electron application",
"main": "main.js",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "git+https://github.com"
},
"keywords": [
"Electron"
],
"author": "GitHub",
"license": "CC0-1.0",
"devDependencies": {
"electron": "^9.1.0",
"electron-builder": "^22.0.0"
},
"scripts": {
"start": "electron .",
"pack": "electron-builder --dir",
"dist": "electron-builder"
},
"build": {
"appId": "yourappid",
"win": {
"target": "NSIS"
}
}
}

electron-builder version=22.7.0 os=10.0.19041
• loaded configuration file=package.json ("build" field)
• writing effective config file=dist\builder-effective-config.yaml
• packaging platform=win32 arch=x64 electron=9.1.0 appOutDir=dist\win-unpacked
• default Electron icon is used reason=application icon is not set
• building target=nsis file=dist\electron-quick-start Setup 1.0.0.exe archs=x64 oneClick=true perMachine=false
⨯ C:\Users\C******_M*******\AppData\Local\electron-builder\Cache\nsis\nsis-3.0.4.1\Bin\makensis.exe exited with code ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE
Output:

Have the same issue here, I need to downgrade to 21.2.0

[MisterOryon]

even with electron-builder version = 21.2.0 the problem persists

Error: C:\Users\M******_C******\AppData\Local\electron-builder\Cache\nsis\nsis-3.0.3.2\Bin\makensis.exe exited with code ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE
at ChildProcess. (H:\SaveLane\node_modules\builder-util\src\util.ts:239:14)
at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:422:26)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286:5)

[Eole7]

I had the same issue, I moved my app folder to the root of my hard-drive, and it worked. Electron-builder does not seem to be supporting non-ASCII characters in the path of an app.

[MisterOryon]

unfortunately the problem still persists.

[Wensh]

@Eole7 Care to elaborate your solution? I am running into the same issue, not very helpful for my CI.

[Eole7]

@Eole7 Care to elaborate your solution? I am running into the same issue, not very helpful for my CI.

Well, if you're running the same issue on your CI, my solution might not help you, as I don't have this issue on my CI. Though, the issue I have on local is that when I add the LICENSE key (but from what I've read on other issues, it could be for other reasons) to my NSIS build parameters and that the path of my app contains non-ASCII characters, I get the above error. I moved my app folder to the root directory of my drive and the build was successful.

[samermurad]

I had the same problem but only when trying to brand our product with electron-builder in a linux Debian Buster docker container

The solution that we ended up needing is install wine and wine32 for i386 arch

node: v10.15.3
npm: 6.4.1
electron-builder: 22.8.0

we simple added these commands to our Dockerfile:

 + dpkg --add-architecture i386 && \
    apt-get update && \
    apt-get install <LONG_LIST_OF_PACKAGES_WE_NEED> && \
+  apt-get install wine wine32

The part about needing the wine framework is also detailed in the official docs

[aleksey-hoffman]

This error may also appear when you're trying to build the app while some electron process is running (e.g. after improperly closing the dev server).

Open your task manager and make sure you don't have any running electron processes.

[Hadatko]

Same here. Above comments are looking not related to my case. I don't know what is wrong.

[Hadatko]

Solved:
in my case svg app icon did the issue:

"build": {
        "compression": "store",
        "asar": "true",
        "win": {
            "target": "portable",
            "icon": "./html/img/logo.svg",
            "files": ["**/*", "!html/measurements/*"]
        },
        "directories": {
            "app": "."
        }
    }

[Hadatko]

Under Linux it cannot be even jpg as i did for windows. It has to be png.

[gocarlos]

same here, issue was missing icon key in build.linux

[ntbosscher]

Yeah, if you look further down the output there should be a more descriptive error. Mine was

Error while loading icon from "C:\...\resources\uninstallerIcon.ico": invalid icon file

I was able to fix it by opening the image in GIMP and re-saving it.

[laurent22]

Same for me, wrong icon path. Got to say electron-builder error reporting is quite awful.