Can not compile etcher on Windows

[Jeffson-wu]

Hi, I need help to compile etcher by myself, can I ask you: 1:can you guide me how to compile it on windows?I did not find a detailed step in CONTRIBUTING.md.

2:it is possible to compile windows exe at ubuntu linux env?I tried to compile both windows and linux version of etcher, but both failed.

Thanks

[aethernet]

Hello,

Documentation might be a little behind as we changed quite some things recently. You can check the https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/.github/actions/test/action.yml for the most up-to-date process (that's the code that does the build for the public version).

We moved to electron-forge so as long as you comply with the prerequisite for electron and electron-forge (and installed the host packages listed in the package.json for ubuntu), you should be good to go with an npm run package.

[Jeffson-wu]

Thank you @aethernet I checked the action.yml file, it sees like the dependencies for Windows is not mentioned. If I want to build etcher for windows, I can build the code on linux and then package the executable file for running on windows, it this correct?

[aethernet]

You can refer to the electron-forge docs for both answers.

I guess it's possible to compile for windows on Linux but didn't tried and don't know what dependencies you're going to need for that...

[Jeffson-wu]

@aethernet Thanks for your kind help, the linux package build succeed after I installed electron-forge. but for windows build, I am facing an error, if you guys know how to solve this error, it will be very helpful,but never mind if you guys do not know since I am using Ubuntu to build Windows package.

wu@wu-VirtualBox:~/etcher$ npm run make -- --platform win32 ✔ Running preMake hook ❯ Making distributables ✖ Making a zip distributable for win32/x64 ✖ Making a squirrel distributable for win32/x64 › Failed with exit code: 1 Output: Attempting to build package from 'balena_etcher.nuspec'. The '@' character, hexadecimal value 0x40, cannot be included in a name. Line 1, position 19. ◼ Running postMake hook

An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge: Error: Failed with exit code: 1 Output: Attempting to build package from 'balena_etcher.nuspec'. The '@' character, hexadecimal value 0x40, cannot be included in a name. Line 1, position 19. at ChildProcess. (/home/wu/etcher/node_modules/electron-winstaller/src/spawn-promise.ts:51:16) at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28) at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12) at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16) at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:303:5)

[aethernet]

No clue, sorry 😅