[Bug]: Needs to unpack node on Windows

[stutf]

Version

• [X] I'm using version 1.14.1

Known issues

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Existing issues

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Advanced Preferences

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What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 11 22H2 x64

Reproduction steps

1. Launching Stretchly always creates the error every time.

Expected Behavior

I would like Stretchly to open and run.

Actual Behavior

Relevant log output

From Windows Event Viewer

Code Integrity determined that a process (\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\Stretchly\Stretchly.exe) attempted to load \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\c47fa814-131b-4f58-beec-d8b2cc2b81e9.tmp.node that did not meet the Enterprise signing level requirements or violated code integrity policy (Policy ID:{b112b106-4b8f-4e69-8301-881ae511d511}).

Preferences

No response

Additional information

I'm pretty sure that it is Windows Defender Application Control that is blocking Stretchly. I have allowed all the files in the Stretchly directory, but Stretchly is trying to load files from temporary files - see the 'log output' which is from Windows Event Viewer. Does Stretchly really need to be using files that are in temporary files? I really don't want to be allowlisting anything from the temp directory.

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[hovancik]

Hi and thanks for the report. Not sure if Stretchly needs some temp files, but looks like it does. I am using Electron.js which does all the work for me and I pretty much just write some JS code.

Also, how did you install? Maybe installing from Windows Store would help? Just added that recently.

[stutf]

Hi Jan, Thanks for your quick reply and for your time in making and supporting Stretchly. I installed it from the .exe file and the 'all users' option. Today, I have uninstalled that one and have installed the Windows Store version, but same result, unfortunately. I found this https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/12534 which sounds like the exact same problem. Is that able to be done for Stretchly?

[hovancik]

Hi, yeah, I am already doing some unpacks for some reason, so we could also add node: https://github.com/hovancik/stretchly/blob/61b2a79352073a615f69de6883caf969f8782825/package.json#L101. If you have time, feel free to create a PR. Would be nice if you could try creating installer and test it out. For some reason I am not able to build stretchly on my Windows laptop ;/

[hovancik]

@stutf so I managed to build on windows, can you try? https://conta.noho.st/nextcloud/s/ALabg7i4wKKCGoP

But this increased the size of the installer to almost 300MB, which is pretty wild, so not sure whether I want to proceed with this fix.