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Use a new tool replace Squirrel.Windows on macOS

Open finscn opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

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Problem description

Squirrel.Windows doesn't support macOS anymore. User can't make windows-installer file .

I found electron-builder could create windows's installer file on macOS. So I hope forge could use electron-builder to make the release file.

Proposed solution

Use electron-builder in forge to make project.

Alternatives considered

electron-builder

Additional information

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finscn avatar Mar 15 '25 05:03 finscn

I know certain userland projects have ported the NSIS target on Windows to work with Electron Forge: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/electron-forge-maker-nsis

erickzhao avatar Mar 15 '25 06:03 erickzhao