electron-builder: error output:wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"

Version: 21.2.0 Building for x64 Windows

Used to work, few months and a new system later, Windows builds no longer work from Mac.

                    out=WiX Toolset Linker version 4.0.0.5512
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                    errorOut=wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"
    err:wineboot:ProcessRunKeys Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (2)
    Z:\Users\tmorrow\repo\cinematic\.desktop-installer\__msi-x64\project.wxs(141) : error LGHT0103 : The system cannot find the file 'Z:\Users\tmorrow\repo\cinematic\.desktop-installer\win-unpacked\resources\app\.reify-cache\00fbb6e6961ad6900660bc58cd1ed66bf0e72a24.js'.
    
                    command=/Users/tmorrow/Library/Caches/electron-builder/wine/wine-2.0.3-mac-10.13/bin/wine 'Z:\Users\tmorrow\Library\Caches\electron-builder\wix\wix-4.0.0.5512.2\light.exe' -out 'Z:\Users\tmorrow\repo\cinematic\.desktop-installer\Cinematic 1.1.1.msi' -v -spdb -sw1076 '-dappDir=Z:\Users\tmorrow\repo\cinematic\.desktop-installer\win-unpacked' -pedantic -wx -sval project.wixobj
                    workingDir=

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments: 18 (2 by maintainers)

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rollback electron-builder to 21.2.0 solve my problem, but latest version still looks unstable

BusinessDuck on Nov 6, 2019

same problem. macOS 13.2, electron 11.5.0, electron-builder 22.9.1

fionaInBits on Apr 6, 2023

electron-builder@22.2.0 looks good to me. Also on macOS 10.14.6. A keeper 😉

dehmer on Nov 29, 2019

i’m running into this same error trying to build for windows. i’m on mac os mojave 10.14.6. any progress on this issue?

  ⨯ cannot execute  cause=signal: killed
                    errorOut=wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"
    err:wineboot:ProcessRunKeys Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (2)
    wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x004cb000 at address 0x403472 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
    
                    command=/Users/khuynh/Library/Caches/electron-builder/wine/wine-2.0.3-mac-10.13/bin/wine '/Users/khuynh/react-electron-starter/dist/MyApp Setup 0.1.0.exe'
                    workingDir=
  ⨯ /Users/khuynh/react-electron-starter/node_modules/app-builder-lib/node_modules/app-builder-bin/mac/app-builder exited with code ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE  stackTrace=

hkennyv on Nov 6, 2019