Electron Forge Squirrel Windows on Mac OS Catalina? - node.js

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Asking again 'cause I havent had any luck finding this information. Does anyone know where I can find the documentation or steps to package my Electron app for Windows on a Mac running OS Catalina(10.15)? I've successfully published for DMG and and .zip for Mac OS. Using electron-forge currently.
I read the Electron documentation to use wine or mono and I installed both, but I'm not sure what to do after that. I tried running the electron-packager after installing both but it still ignores the squirrel-maker for Windows. Tried running electron-make and publish, all ignore the squirrel-maker.
I got an error once that I needed to use 'electron-compile' but when I installed it and tried using it, it kept throwing an error on my source code when it would come across a dot operator for arrays or objects? Ex:
let object = {Name:"Something"}
let object2 = {Age:20}
let newObject = {
...object,
...object2
}
Would throw an error when trying to use the 'electron-compile' framework.
Really trying to avoid flipping back and forth between Windows and Mac on my mac and having to install electron on both platforms.
package.json file:
"name": "MyApp",
"productName": "My Fantastic App",
"version": "1.1.4",
"description": "The worlds most boring app.",
"main": "src/index.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "electron-forge start",
"package": "electron-forge package",
"make": "electron-forge make",
"publish": "electron-forge publish",
"lint": "echo \"No linting configured\"",
"dist": "build",
"build": "electron-builder build --dir"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "sychordCoder",
"license": "MIT",
"config": {
"forge": "./custom-not.js"
},
"dependencies": {
"dotenv": "^9.0.2",
"electron-dl": "^3.2.1",
"electron-is-dev": "^2.0.0",
"electron-log": "^4.3.5",
"electron-squirrel-startup": "^1.0.0",
"electron-updater": "^4.3.9",
"firebase": "^8.6.2",
"jquery": "^3.6.0",
"pug": "^3.0.2"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#electron-forge/cli": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"#electron-forge/maker-deb": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"#electron-forge/maker-dmg": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"#electron-forge/maker-rpm": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"#electron-forge/maker-squirrel": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"#electron-forge/maker-zip": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"#electron-forge/publisher-github": "^6.0.0-beta.54",
"electron": "^12.0.0",
"uglify-js": "^3.13.7"
}
}
This is my config js file:
module.exports = {
packagerConfig: {
name: 'MyApp',
executableName: 'MyApp',
asar: true,
icon: 'src/images/icon128#2x',
ignore: ["file1source.js","file2source.js"],
appBundleId: 'MyAppId',
osxSign: {
identity: 'Developer ID Application: John Smith(90210)',
hardenedRuntime: true,
'gatekeeper-assess': false,
entitlements: 'static/entitlements.plist',
'entitlements-inherit': 'static/entitlements.plist',
'signature-flags': 'library'
},
osxNotarize: {
appleId: process.env.APPLE_ID,
appleIdPassword: process.env.APPLE_PASSWORD
}
},
makers: [
{
name: '#electron-forge/maker-squirrel',
platforms: [
"win32"
],
config: {
name: 'MyApp',
description: 'The worlds most boring app.',
version: '1.1.4'
}
},
{
name: '#electron-forge/maker-zip',
platforms: [
'darwin'
]
},
{
name: '#electron-forge/maker-deb',
config: {}
},
{
name: '#electron-forge/maker-rpm',
config: {}
},
{
name: '#electron-forge/maker-dmg',
config: {
overwrite:true,
icon: 'src/images/icon128#2x.icns'
}
}
],
publishers: [
{
name: '#electron-forge/publisher-github',
config: {
repository: {
owner: 'githubOwner',
name: 'gitHubReleases'
},
prerelease: false,
releaseType: "release",
authToken: process.env.GH_TOKEN
}
}
]
}
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,

Answer 1

you should open the wine terminal to run command of build electron.