Uncorrected packaging exe-containing library into exe.

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What version of pkg are you using?

5.7.0

What version of Node.js are you using?

16.15.1

What operating system are you using?

Windows

What CPU architecture are you using?

x86_64

What Node versions, OSs and CPU architectures are you building for?

node16-win-x64

Describe the Bug

I am using library wallpaper.js and try to pack it into executable. But when I run resulting executable, there is an error ENOENT for executable that library uses under the hood. This executable is located in node_modules. The problem that library exe-file exists inside pack, I checked it. But it can't be called for some reasons I don't understand. Just throw error ENOENT.

Expected Behavior

This must works correctly, but it doesn`t. when execFile happend program throws execption ENOENT win-wallpaper.exe. BUT, it does work if you just run it through node.js

main.js file

const {promisify} = require('util');
const path = require('path');
const childProcess = require('child_process');

const execFile = promisify(childProcess.execFile);

const binary = path.join(__dirname, 'exe/win-wallpaper.exe');
const img = path.join(__dirname, './0.png');
console.log(img)

execFile(binary, [img])
    .then(data => console.log(data))
    .catch(data => console.log(data))

pkg.json which I used for compiling

{
  "pkg": {
    "assets": [
      "assets/**/*",
      "exe/*"
    ],
    "targets": [
      "node16-win-x64"
    ]
  }
}

To Reproduce

You can use script above and run it with node and after compile it with pkg and try to run (It throws error ENOENT). Instead of win-wallpaper.exe you can use whatever executable you want.

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