I trying to build an electron with an exe installer on macOS with a MacBook Pro with an m1. I already tried different packages like electron-packager, electron-forge, but unfortunately, none of my tries worked. Did anyone has a solution to build an electron version with an exe on macOS. My latest approach looked like, but when I start and after more then 30 minute it still do no finish.
yarn run electron-forge make --arch=x64 --platform=win32
The current code could be found here.
We using electron-builder for packaging electron app on Windows&MacOS(x86_x64/arm etc.), and you can try it.
add some config in package.json, like this:
"build": {
"appId": "com.electron.yourappid",
"productName": "your-product-name",
"asar": false,
"mac": {
"target": [
"pkg"
],
"entitlements": "entitlements.mac.plist"
},
"win": {
"target": [
{
"target": "zip",
"arch": [
"x64"
]
},
{
"target": "msi",
"arch": [
"x64"
]
}
]
}
},
"scripts": {
"dist": "electron-builder"
},
then run npm command like this:
# add package in your project
npm install --save-dev electron-builder
npm run dist # or 'npx electron-builder'
If you perfer using 'shelljs', create a file 'dist.js', and content:
const { exec, rm } = require('shelljs');
exec('electron-builder');
and then run node command
npm install --save-dev shelljs
node dist.js
More detail for config you can read offical doc of electron-builder.
I've looked into it and failed (building Apple Silicon, Apple Intel and Windows distributables from M1 Mac). I ended up setting up VMs that I use for building the distributables, and testing also.