Can't package with pkg module

[EasonWang01]

It will result then following

> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  ..\node_modules\node-notifier\vendor\notifu\notifu.exe
  path-to-executable/notifier/notifu.exe

OS:windows 10

[stevenwhitespacesystems]

Not sure for Windows as I haven't got around to it yet but you usually have to copy that .exe file to the folder where your pkg executable is built.

i.e. copy notifu.exe to path-to-executable/notifier/notifu.exe

For any Mac user who got here, it was slightly different and PKG wasn't totally clear.

> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier
path-to-executable/notifier/terminal-notifier

You copy the terminal-notifier executable to the location like it states but you also need to copy the following files to the same location

- node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Info.plist
- node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/MainMenu.nib

So in the end you should have the following structure at your build folder.

- path-to-executable/app
- path-to-executable/notifier/terminal-notifier
- path-to-executable/notifier/Info.plist
- path-to-executable/notifier/MainMenu.nib

Doing the above worked for me and executed the notification from the built pkg file.

[mikaelbr]

Thanks! Added this issue to the readme

[normen]

This MacOS workaround doesn't seem to work (anymore). I copy the terminal-notifier executable, Info.plist and MainMenu.nib to path-to-executable/notifier/* but my own executable created by pkg doesn't seem to be able to find them.

There is no notification issued and no error message appearing when running my pkg-created executable, when running the application using "node index.js" notifications are appearing.

OS: MacOS 10.14.6
Node: 12.41.1

[PabloWestphalen]

windows 10 also doesn't seem to work

[nicam]

@normen I found a workaround:

You need to copy the necessary files into the path-to-executable dir, in my base bin/

cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/MainMenu.nib bin/notifier
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Info.plist bin/notifier
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier bin/notifier

Then you need to create your own notifier, using customPath:

const notifier = new NotificationCenter({ customPath: path.resolve() + '/notifier/terminal-notifier', });

[GerkinDev]

For Windows 10 users (@PabloWestphalen, @EasonWang01), pkg is actually misconfigured. I've just sent a PR to fix this: vercel/pkg#1021.

[ftzi]

@GerkinDev i still have the

errors

> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/notifu/notifu.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/notifu.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/notifu/notifu64.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/notifu64.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/terminal-notifier
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/snoreToast/snoretoast-x64.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/snoretoast-x64.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/snoreToast/snoretoast-x86.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/snoretoast-x86.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/notifu/notifu.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/notifu.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/notifu/notifu64.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/notifu64.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/terminal-notifier
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/snoreToast/snoretoast-x64.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/snoretoast-x64.exe
> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  %1: node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/snoreToast/snoretoast-x86.exe
  %2: path-to-executable/notifier/snoretoast-x86.exe

/bin/sh: 1: [...]/node_modules/pkg/node_modules/.bin/prebuild-install: not found
/bin/sh: 1: [...]/node_modules/pkg/node_modules/.bin/prebuild-install: not found
/bin/sh: 1: [...]/node_modules/pkg/node_modules/.bin/prebuild-install: not found

Do someone know how to get it working for windows at least?

[Asteroid77]

@GerkinDev i still have the

errors
Do someone know how to get it working for windows at least?

Hi, i have resolved it finally.
Maybe will be helpful for you:)
First i used pkg -t win package.json -d to open the debug mode in order to notice anything wrong.
The result of debug mode showed that:

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import notifier from 'node-notifier';
                                                              ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at new Script (vm.js:89:7)
    at Socket.<anonymous> ([eval]:18:19)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:314:20)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:297:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:272:9)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:213:10)
    at Pipe.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:188:23)
> Warning Failed to make bytecode node12-x64 for file C:\snapshot\test\test.js

The problem is related to the ES6 module and i tried to complie my entry by babel :

babel test.js -d dist --presets es2015 --copy-files

and then use pkg to handle the file compiled by babel :

pkg -t win "fileComplied" -d

it works fine now

you should copy notifu.exe,notifu64.exe ,snoretoast-x86.exe,snoretoast-x64.exe,terminal-notifier to path-to-executable/notifier/

[mike-van]

@normen I found a workaround:

You need to copy the necessary files into the path-to-executable dir, in my base bin/

cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/MainMenu.nib bin/notifier
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Info.plist bin/notifier
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier bin/notifier

Then you need to create your own notifier, using customPath:

const notifier = new NotificationCenter({ customPath: path.resolve() + '/notifier/terminal-notifier', });

this answers also works for me

[kulek1]

@normen I found a workaround:

You need to copy the necessary files into the path-to-executable dir, in my base bin/

cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/MainMenu.nib bin/notifier
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Info.plist bin/notifier
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier bin/notifier

Then you need to create your own notifier, using customPath:

const notifier = new NotificationCenter({ customPath: path.resolve() + '/notifier/terminal-notifier', });

Thanks. It works but with small caveats in my case:

1. bin/notifier needs to be a directory so cp command should have / at the end of bin/notifier like this:

cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Info.plist bin/notifier/
cp node_modules/node-notifier/vendor/mac.noindex/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier bin/notifier/

2. I have my production build in bin directory so path.resolve() wasn't resolving a proper path because it was pointing to $HOME. To fix that, I used process.execPath like this:

{
  customPath: path.join(
    process.execPath,
    '../',
    'notifier/terminal-notifier',
  ),
}

I spent some time trying to figure out why it doesn't work for me so I hope I'll save you guys a few hours of debugging.

[jmw11x]

None of the above solutions are working anymore. See my below file structure. Where am I going wrong? pgk . does not work either.