Can't package win32 on WSL

[dreisel]

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Issue Details

• **Electron Forge Version: **
  • 6.0.0-beta.53

• Electron Version:
• Operating System:
  • Linux version 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft (Microsoft@Microsoft.com) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC) ) feat(generic): add source-map-support for better stacktraces #488-Microsoft Mon Sep 01 13:43:00 PST 2020

• Last Known Working Electron Forge version::

Expected Behavior

yarn package -- --platform win32

Actual Behavior

`➜ yarn package -- --platform win32
yarn run v1.22.4
warning package.json: License should be a valid SPDX license expression
warning ../../../../package.json: No license field
warning From Yarn 1.0 onwards, scripts don't require "--" for options to be forwarded. In a future version, any explicit "--" will be forwarded as-is to the scripts.
$ electron-forge package --platform win32
✔ Checking your system
✔ Compiling Main Process Code
✔ Compiling Renderer Template
✔ Preparing to Package Application for arch: x64
✔ Preparing native dependencies
⠋ Packaging Application
An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
Error: rcedit.exe failed with exit code 1. Unable to load file: "/tmp/electron-packager/win32-x64/electron-win32-x64/electron.exe"
at ChildProcess. (/c/Users/daniel/dev/ui/node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js:71:16)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:483:12)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
at Socket. (internal/child_process.js:443:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:315:20)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:483:12)
at Pipe. (net.js:674:12)

Electron Forge was terminated. Location:
{}
error Command failed with exit code 1.`

To Reproduce

yarn package --platform win32

Additional Information

So after a short investigation, the issue is a combination of 2 things.

1. the build is stored in a temp dir, located in /tmp/XXX this is the linux machine temp directory and its inaccessible for the windows process.
2. electron-rcedit added support for wsl so when on WSL it is not using wine and therefor can't access the electron.exe file.

[malept]

This seems like an electron/node-rcedit bug rather than an Electron Forge bug.

[dreisel]

I disagree,
electron/node-rcedit doesn't handle the location of the exe file.

is there a way to configure the build directory to use a local directory? such as .build which will be added to gitignore

[dreisel]

If any one else encounter this issue, I've solved it by adding:
"resolutions": { "rcedit": "2.1.1" },

to my package.json, and installing with yarn.

[malept]

This is a node-rcedit bug because the path was not converted to a Windows path. rcedit.exe is a Windows executable, so it won't be able to use Linux paths.