I have an Electron app. I try to make the app open an .exe file. I created a directory in the root folder named lib
and placed the .exe file there. In development, I have no problem opening the file by using __dirname + '/lib/file.exe
, but when I package the app (using yarn dist
), it does not open the exe file and there is no lib
folder anymore on the dist
folder.
I tried writing to console the default location using console.log(__dirname)
and it outputs distwin-unpackedresourcesapp.asa
(which is a file).
How can I add an external file that can be accessed when the app is packaged?
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Answer
Managed to solve it by using extraResources. Should be declared under build in your package.json
file.
For example:
Create a new folder named extraResources adjacent to pacakge.json
Add the following code to your
package.json
file:"build": { "extraResources": ["./extraResources/**"] }
Then, you can access the files inside this folder by using
__dirname + '/../extraResources/'
from your main app.