electron/build-tools

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The GN scripts to use for Electron dev-flows

Stars: 297
Forks: 83
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 18
Avg merge: 17h 23m
Merged PRs (30d): 15

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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18 open issues indexed

Add macOS SDK 26.5 to Azure Open

wg-infra

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

electron/build-tools#862 · Opened May 14, 2026
Windows build failure: The filename or extension is too long Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#823 · Opened Mar 23, 2026
[for `npm test` electron src] No module named 'dbusmock' and 'gi' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#790 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Install fails without global Yarn Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

electron/build-tools#788 · Opened Jan 3, 2026
err: fork/exec /Users/lucad/.electron_build_tools/third_party/depot_tools/bootstrap-2@3_11_8_chromium_35_bin/python3/bin/python3.exe: The system cannot find the path specified. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/build-tools#779 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2025
ERROR Error: Command failed: npx yarn --prod Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#775 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Build tools default to `x64` on `arm64` Windows Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

electron/build-tools#762 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2025
Unable to initialize - giving up trying to rename expand.exe Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/build-tools#688 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 10, 2025
Cannot find fnm installed npm and npx Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#683 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 24, 2024
Output incorrectly piped to console on windows Open

:beetle: bug windows

electron/build-tools#562 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2024
Consider running `build/install-build-deps.sh` on Linux before build Open

:sparkles: enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#536 · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Document windows toolchain update process Open

:notebook: documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

electron/build-tools#472 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 16, 2023
`e cherry-pick` should support "stacking" the cherry-pick on top of another Open

:sparkles: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#442 · Opened Dec 9, 2022
Add support for forks to cherry-pick command Open

:sparkles: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#318 · Opened Jan 18, 2022
windows build fails randomly Open

build-failure windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/build-tools#269 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 15, 2021
Ctrl+C When Building on Windows Continues Building Open

:beetle: bug windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/build-tools#232 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2020
Windows Security deletes Chromium file Open

windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

electron/build-tools#219 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 25, 2020
Create `e lint` to make linting available to users using exclusively build-tools Open

:sparkles: enhancement

electron/build-tools#179 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2020

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