electron/windows-installer

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Build Windows Installers for Electron apps

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Indexed issues: 110
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Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
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110 open issues indexed

Dependency on old version of `@electron/asar` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

electron/windows-installer#611 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Running Setup.exe while the app is running can break the installation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

electron/windows-installer#597 · Opened May 4, 2026
Electron app installation takes 15+ minutes Open

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

electron/windows-installer#571 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Prevent running Electron app by copying/zipping installed folder to another PC Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

electron/windows-installer#570 · Opened Dec 30, 2025
License files LICENSE.electron.txt and LICENSES.chromium.html are not distributed with the application Open

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

electron/windows-installer#568 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Failed with exit code: 4294967295 Open

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

electron/windows-installer#559 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2025
An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge: Error: Failed with exit code: 4294967295 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

electron/windows-installer#557 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2025
why doesn't iconUrl accept local files? Open

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

electron/windows-installer#555 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 7, 2025
Stop Using Lodash Open

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

electron/windows-installer#549 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 18, 2025
Using hookFunction via electron-winstaller Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

electron/windows-installer#548 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Please package `src` alongside the app Open

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

electron/windows-installer#532 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Fail to set icon on non windows Open

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

electron/windows-installer#531 · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Fails on `Squirrel-Mono.exe --releasify` Open

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

electron/windows-installer#527 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Please update rcedit.exe to the latest and greatest. Open

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

electron/windows-installer#522 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2024
Squirrel.log error (setup.exe) Open

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

electron/windows-installer#517 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2024
Issue with windows-sign param throwing error in Electron/windows-installer (by sea-signtool) Open

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

electron/windows-installer#508 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 1, 2024
Installation without popping up a `loadingGif` Open

question

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

electron/windows-installer#543 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2024
`createWindowsInstaller` Fails Writing to temp/*.nuspec File When "/" in Package Name Open

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

electron/windows-installer#503 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 11, 2024
`setupIcon` config failed when `productName` contains chinese character ;`Fatal error: Unable to load file` Open

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

electron/windows-installer#490 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 3, 2023
Electron MSI package name ends with machine why? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

electron/windows-installer#481 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 6, 2023
Does not work at all Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

electron/windows-installer#477 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2023
How to sign windows app on CI? (from June 1, 2023) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

electron/windows-installer#473 · 14 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 30, 2023
Fatal error: Unable to load file Open

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

electron/windows-installer#471 · Opened Apr 30, 2023
How to trigger a batch file during installation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

electron/windows-installer#470 · Opened Mar 14, 2023
loadingGif takes a few seconds to show during installation. Can we make it show immediately? Open

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

electron/windows-installer#456 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2023
Shortcut "Start in" garbled Open

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

electron/windows-installer#451 · Opened Dec 21, 2022
ability to view the portable installer file path Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/windows-installer#406 · Opened Jan 31, 2022
Codesigning failure: 4294967295 Open

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

electron/windows-installer#404 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2022
Installer runs briefly then quit Open

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

electron/windows-installer#403 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2021
can certificateFile accept base64 Open

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

electron/windows-installer#400 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2021
setupIcon for the setup installer .exe not working Open

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

electron/windows-installer#399 · Opened Sep 6, 2021
How do I see console.log output in the squirrelEvent Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/windows-installer#397 · Opened Aug 30, 2021
Package and distribute the application Not Work Open

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

electron/windows-installer#382 · Opened Apr 22, 2021
Cannot build quick start app Open

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

electron/windows-installer#370 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 1, 2020
Unable to create build. Error code: 4294967295 Open

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

electron/windows-installer#366 · Opened Nov 16, 2020
Incorrect .ico used for Desktop and Start menu shortcuts Open

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

electron/windows-installer#365 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Nov 14, 2020
Stuck on Spawning mono... Open

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

electron/windows-installer#363 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2020
How to filter to be signed files? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

electron/windows-installer#358 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2020
Transparent Icon Open

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

electron/windows-installer#357 · Opened Sep 4, 2020
How to sign Update.exe? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

electron/windows-installer#356 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2020
rcedit.exe not supported on this system Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/windows-installer#355 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2020
Support for semantic version prerelease version format Open

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

electron/windows-installer#338 · Opened May 18, 2020
Error on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) in Squirrel.Utility.CreateZipFromDirectory Open

bug upstream

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

electron/windows-installer#327 · 9 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jan 30, 2020
Can't find custom attr constructor image with nuget.exe Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

electron/windows-installer#325 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 18, 2020
Iconurl cannot be displayed in the control panel Open

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

electron/windows-installer#318 · Opened Sep 26, 2019
Parameter passing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

electron/windows-installer#317 · Opened Sep 4, 2019
Cannot create an installer with electron-winstaller: “Stream was too long” Open

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

electron/windows-installer#308 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2019
Can't properly install electron app Open

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

electron/windows-installer#307 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2019
Can we create a delta package to update an app that was created with noDelta? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

electron/windows-installer#302 · Opened May 18, 2019
long node_module paths cause problem - any ideas? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

electron/windows-installer#301 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2019

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