Lack of helpful error messages

[rafaga]

I'm trying to build packages on windows and macOS, when I ran the command cargo packager on project directory

the following error is shown on terminal

ERROR No such file or directory. (os error 2)`

When I used the --verbose flag, the error message is not better in terms of information

DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: Running Command `"rustc" "--print" "cfg"`
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: debug_assertions
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: panic="unwind"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_arch="x86_64"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_endian="little"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_env="msvc"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_family="windows"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_feature="fxsr"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_feature="sse"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_feature="sse2"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_has_atomic="16"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_has_atomic="32"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_has_atomic="64"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_has_atomic="8"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_has_atomic="ptr"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_os="windows"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_pointer_width="64"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: target_vendor="pc"
DEBUG cargo_packager::shell: windows
ERROR cargo_packager::cli: No such file or directory. (os error 2)

I'm using packager.json with the following content:

{
    "name": "telescope",
    "description": "description",
    "longDescription": null,
    "enabled": true,
    "productName": "Telescope",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "binaries": [
      {
        "path": "telescope",
        "main": true
      }
    ],
    "identifier": "org.rafaga.telescope",
    "beforePackagingCommand": null,
    "beforeEachPackageCommand": null,
    "logLevel": "info",
    "formats": null,
    "targetTriple": null,
    "homepage": "http://github.com/",
    "icons": ["../assets/icon01-256.png","../assets/icon01-1024.png"],
    "authors": [
      "Rafael Amador Galván"
    ],
    "publisher": null,
    "licenseFile": "../LICENSE.md",
    "copyright": null,
    "category": "Utility",
    "fileAssociations": null,
    "resources": [
      {
        "src": "assets/icon01-*.png",
        "target": "assets/icon01.*.png"
      },
      "Lorem ipsum"
    ],
    "externalBinaries": null,
    "windows": {
      "tsp": true,
      "allowDowngrades": true
    },
    "macos": {
      "frameworks": null,
      "entitlements": null
    },
    "deb": null,
    "appimage": null,
    "pacman": null,
    "wix": null,
    "nsis": {
      "compression": "lzma",
      "headerImage": null,
      "installerIcon": null,
      "installMode": "currentUser",
      "languages": [
        "English",
        "Spanish"
      ],
      "displayLanguageSelector": true,
      "appdataPaths": ["$LOCALAPPDATA/$PRODUCTNAME"]
    },
    "dmg":{
      "background": null
    }
  }

There is any way to get more helpful error messages?

[amr-crabnebula]

Thank you for reaching out, will try to fix the error messages soon.

As for your issue, seems like it maybe the resources paths are incorrect? you have your icons specified as ../assets/icon01-256.png but then in resources they are assets/icon01-*, I suppose resources should be ../assets/icon01-* as well. Might be helpful if you provide your repo structure.

[rafaga]

I tried your suggestion, yet no success. Thank you for taking some time in solving this issue

[amr-crabnebula]

could you share the repo with the issue or a simple replica of it so I can take a better look?

[rafaga]

This is the repository

Https://GitHub.com/rafaga/telescope.git

[amr-crabnebula]

I can see two issues here:

• All paths specified in the config use ../ where it should be just ./ as these files all reside next to the config.

• You're using a packager.json config file and when cargo-packager sees a dedicated config file, it can't tell it is a rust project or not and so it doesn't set the outDir value automatically, so you need to add "outDir": "target/release" (the path where cargo outputs your executable) or move your config to Cargo.toml under [package.metadata.packager] key like this https://github.com/crabnebula-dev/cargo-packager/blob/2ad7706a3c8929dcd50a220c98c2c29032fdf187/examples/egui/Cargo.toml

  I am not sure if we can automatically detect if it is a Rust project with a dedicated config, but as a last resort we can add an option in config to explicitly tells us, maybe "isRust": true or something.

[rafaga]

OK thank you for the feedback, I will make the suggested changes. Returning to the issue there is any way to make the error messages more explicit and helpful, because it is not feasible to debug cargo-packager every time an error like this appears.

[rafaga]

Ok, it runs but ... in the config file in the repo I'm Using Wix Toolkit, and builds the installer on NSIS , nsis configuration part has null value. Why ?

[amr-crabnebula]

wix installer is not built by default, set "formats": ["wix", "nsis", "app", ...etc ] in the config