how to insert a command-line program in the package

Question

I have a command-line program, say "myprogram.exe" installed in the resources directory of my nodejs-electron application.

I run my electron application via "npm start" with no problem: the nodejs function execPromise finds myprogram.exe and runs fine.

When I try to package my app using electron-forge command "npm run make", the file "myprogram.exe" is not copied into the out/myprogram-win32-x64/resources directory.

I added the following lines inside package.json:

  "build": {
    "appId": "myapp",
    "directories": {
      "buildResources": "resources"
    },
    "files": [
      "resources/**/*"
    ]
  }

and I have added to forge.config.js the following lines:

module.exports = {
  packagerConfig: {
    asar: true,
    extraFiles: ['resources/myprogram.exe'],
  },

but myprogram.exe is nowhere in the out/** directories... Any idea?

silberz · Accepted Answer · 2025-08-08 18:38:35Z

0

I finally managed to make it work by
- storing myprogram.exe in the root directory,
- keeping the original file package.json, and
- adding in forge.config.js:
module.exports = {
  packagerConfig: {
    asar: true,
    extraResource: ['myprogram.exe']
  },

Note that there is no final "s" in ExtraResource

answered Aug 8 at 18:38

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