How do I consume the releases?

[lazyprogrammerio]

Hello. What is the equivalent command to the npm install electron when using the published release .zip?

Thank you!

[kxxt]

Hi,

What is the equivalent command to the npm install electron

You can continue to use npm install electron because the javascript part is cross-platform.

using the published release .zip

The way to use the published release .zip is largely dependent on how you build your application.

• Most tools allow you to specify a custom URL for downloading electron assets: (electron/get for example, https://github.com/electron/get?tab=readme-ov-file#specifying-a-mirror)
• Some tools(like electron/packager and electron-builder) doesn't recognize the riscv64 architecture. So a patch is needed: (for electron/packager: https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/blob/master/zettlr/electron-packager-riscv64.patch)
• electron-builder is likely going to support riscv64 in the future. For now I keep a fork of it: https://github.com/riscv-forks/electron-builder

[lazyprogrammerio]

When I run npm install electron, it fails at this moment here: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/npm/install.js#L49

Only if I run ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD npm install electron, the npm install works.

[kxxt]

When I run npm install electron, it fails at this moment here: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/npm/install.js#L49

Yes, that error is expected if you are building on a riscv64 host. You already mentioned the solution:

Only if I run ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD npm install electron, the npm install works.

Usually you will need to apply more workarounds like this to get it work, like https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/blob/45fbfb5d7b8fc22ebaee52a6ed839dc7cbb18fc5/element.io/riscv64.patch#L7-L9

Because native riscv64 CI environment is rare, usually maintainers of electron applications prefer to build on x64 host for x64, arm64, riscv64 and other targets.