Moving deployed Electron app freezes application

[oleander]

If I just package an Electron app using electron-packager (with wcjs-playeras a dependency) everything works fine. But if I move my compiled application the app freezes.

I have created a simple application that reproduces this error here: https://github.com/oleander/wcjs-fail

Here's how to use it: Create a binary using ./deploy.sh. I've included the latest bindings for VLC for OSX. If you're using something else you might have to manually change the deploy script. The script will create a runnable binary in the dist/WCJSFail-darwin-x64 folder. Running the binary from here works, but fails if its moved (i.e to the applications folder).

After moving the app and starting it, this is what's shown.

Is there a way to solve it?

[RSATom]

@oleander, thanks! I'll look soon.

[RSATom]

@oleander, FYI, I've caught the problem, but didn't find the reason yet.

[oleander]

@RSATom Okay, thanks!

[RSATom]

@oleander, I've found the reason. the problem is in this line: https://github.com/oleander/wcjs-fail/blob/master/deploy.sh#L15 on latest Mac OS X versions, cp command don't copy symbolic links, but copy binaries it points to. I'm talking about this symlinks: https://github.com/oleander/wcjs-fail/tree/master/lib/vlc/lib. The solution is copy links some other way, or recreate symlinks after copy.

[oleander]

cp didn't include the the symlinks. The same apparently goes with electron-packager. It doesn't include symlinks either. I ended up doing this, which worked.

# Same as before
echo "Build package using electron-packager"
./node_modules/electron-packager/cli.js build/ $APP --out=dist/ --version=$VERSION --icon=assets/icon.icns --platform=darwin --arch=x64

# New
LIBFILE=tmp/libvlc.zip
if [ ! -f $LIBFILE ]; then
  echo "Downloading bindings"
  wget -N https://github.com/RSATom/WebChimera.js/releases/download/v.0.1.3/libvlc_2.2.1_mac.zip -O $LIBFILE
else
  echo "Libfile already exists"
fi

echo "Copy VLC bindings"
unzip -q -o tmp/libvlc.zip -d dist/MyApp-darwin-x64/MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/wcjs-player/node_modules/wcjs-renderer/node_modules/webchimera.js/build/Release

@RSATom Thanks for your help!