electron-forge to package ，return code of 0x80070002

[eug3]

When using electron-forge to package and distribute the project, the following error occurs:

uncaughtException: Error: Call to coreclr_create_delegate() for G failed with a return code of 0x80070002

However, it works fine with npm start.

This is on a Windows 11 environment.

[agracio]

When packaging electron application electron-edge-js should be excluded from asar archive and copied into node_modules with its dependencies.

Take a look at some examples here: Packaging Electron application

[eug3]

I have already made this configuration:

packagerConfig: {
    asar: true,
    asarUnpack: [
      'node_modules/electron-edge-js/**'   
    ]
  },
  hooks: {
    // hook afterCopy  
    async afterCopy(buildPath, electronVersion, platform, arch) {
      const src = path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', 'electron-edge-js');
      const dest = path.join(buildPath, 'node_modules', 'electron-edge-js');
      
      // copy electron-edge-js  
      await fs.copy(src, dest);
    }
  }

However, it still throws an error.

[agracio]

As per my previous comment electron-edge-js should not be packed into asar archive in the first place, take a look at your webpack config for electron-forge. If you still have this issue create a repo to reproduce and I will take a look at it.

[eug3]

https://github.com/eug3/e/tree/master

This is my code. Thanks for the help.

[agracio]

I am not very familiar with electron-forge and from quick look it does not appear that you can exclude modules from being packed into asar archive. asarUnpack option is not going to help since it suppose to contain node_modules next to app.asar. In node_modules you would have electron-edge-js and edge-cs .
You need to figure out how to create such package.

[agracio]

npm start does not work either since it is trying to rebuild electron-edge-js but it should be excluded from rebuild.
For it to work modify your forge.config.js to include

rebuildConfig: {
    onlyModules: [],
  },

[eug3]

Based on your suggestions, I made some modifications. Although it's not very elegant, it works smoothly after running npm run make.

This is how I did it:

packagerConfig: {
  asar: {
    unpackDir: "net8.0", // This is where the C# dynamic libraries are located
  },
  ignore: ["node_modules/electron-edge-js", "node_modules/edge-cs"],
},
hooks: {
  postPackage: async (forgeConfig, options) => {
    console.log("build_path", options.outputPaths);
    const outdir = options.outputPaths[0];
    console.log("outdir", outdir);

    // Get node_modules path
    const nodeModulesPath = path.join(outdir, "resources", "node_modules"); 
    const modulesToCopy = ["edge-cs", "electron-edge-js"];

    for (const moduleName of modulesToCopy) {
      const sourcePath = path.join(__dirname, "node_modules", moduleName);
      const targetPath = path.join(nodeModulesPath, moduleName);
      console.log(
        `Copying ${moduleName} from:`,
        sourcePath,
        "to:",
        targetPath
      );
      fs.copySync(sourcePath, targetPath);
    }
    console.log("All modules copied successfully!");
  },
},
... // other properties

Since the dynamic libraries are packed into the app.asar.unpacked directory, I added a check when calling them:

if(__dirname.indexOf('app.asar') !== -1) {
  baseNetAppPath = path.join(process.resourcesPath, "app.asar.unpacked", "net8.0");
}

With this approach, it now works smoothly on Windows 11. Thanks for the help!

[agracio]

I tried running your updated repo on my Win 10 PC and it fails with same message as before.

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')

EDIT: resolved by changing one line in both main.js and app.js. This is needed because we are no longer sending --core or --standard parameter on start.

main.js

var version = 'core';

app.js

var net = 'core';

[agracio]

Created electron-forge example based on your repo, you are credited in README.
https://github.com/agracio/electron-edge-js-quick-start-forge

[agracio]

Found another way to simplify electron-forge config

``forge.config.js`

packagerConfig: {
    asar: true ,
    ignore: ["node_modules/electron-edge-js", "node_modules/edge-cs"],
    extraResource: [
      "net8.0/",
    ]
  }

app.js

 if (__dirname.indexOf("app.asar") !== -1) {
    baseNetAppPath = path.join(process.resourcesPath,"net8.0");
  }