msi option runAfterFinish enabled: launched process gets wrong PATH environment variable

[vincesp]

• Electron-Builder Version: 24.9.1

• Node Version: 18

• Electron Version: 28.0.0
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

• Target: msi

I am creating an msi build with the default setting runAfterFinish enabled. However, when my process gets launched from the installer, it gets passed some kind of "Frankenstein" environment. While variables like HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, USERNAME, USERPROFILE, or even OneDrive are inherited from the current user's environment, the PATH variable comes from the system, so it is missing crucial entries and my application crashes. The only fix is to disable runAfterFinish, unfortunately.

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[vincesp]

Not stale