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Baruch Levin
Baruch Levin

Reputation: 372

How to run electron-packager offline without internet?

I have an Angular project. I want to convert him to Desktop application. For this i use Electron.js.

I can run

electron .

It works fine.

But now i want to make an exe. For this i want to use electron-packager.

The problem: I run:

electron-packager . --platform=win32

The error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN github.com

I understand that electron-packager needs github, but how to solve it?! Again i work offline(with jfrog artifactory) without internet.

Is there another electron package which can do the same without internet? (make an exe)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3648

Answers (1)

Baruch Levin
Baruch Levin

Reputation: 372

The problem is that electron-packager go to github.com to download electron.js.

So as @Alexander Leithner said to use electronZipDir option. (and also malept in electron channel in Discord)

The solution is simple, when you executed:

npm install electron

A zip file of the binaries of electron are cached in your computer.

The command for electron-packager looks like this:

npm install  -D electron-packager
npx electron-packager  .  -- platform=win32 --electronZipDir=C:/Users/baruc/AppData/Local/electron/Cache/**some long string**

Thats all

Edit 25/7/2021 Theoretically, electron-packager has an option called "download" which you can pass to him a "cacheRoot" or "mirrorOptions" to download the electron.zip file. By default you dont need to change the cacheRoot, but unfortunately both options of the download didnt work for me.

BTW, mirrorOptions got an object, not a string. So its not clear how to pass an object from the command line.

I saw that in the file artifact-utils.js of the @electron/get library, and there in the function called "mirrorVar" it search a special environment variables or the mirrorOptions which i tell before. If this function wont find them it will take the default which is github.

Solution when you have an artifactory:

  1. Create in your project an .npmrc file and write there: ELECTRON_MIRROR="http://my mirror site/electron/" Be aware that it end with back slash.

  2. Go to package.json file, and there to scripts write: "pac": "electron-packager -- . --platform=win32"

3.execute it: npm run pac

Upvotes: 1

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