Support for Output of One Packaged EXE on Windows

[leoherzog]

Description

It would be really nice if nativefier would (perhaps optionally) spit out a single portable EXE when run, instead of having it output a bunch of files in a folder.

Specifications

• Version of Nativefier: v7.1.0
• Version of Node.js: v6.10.2
• OS: Windows
• Architecture x64

[ronjouch]

Thanks for the feedback @xd1936 it would be awesome, yeah. But I'll close this for now, it's three levels of needs-upstream-fix away :-/

• It would be upstream's (electron-packager) job, who closed How can I create self-contained executables in Windows and GNU/Linux? electron/packager#243 "How can I create self-contained executables in Windows and GNU/Linux?", passing the ball to their upstream electron...
• ... and electron closed their Atom & App in one executable electron/electron#914 "Atom & App in one executable"...
• ... with these words about their own upstream (Chromium):

"The structure of Chromium is not designed for putting everything into an executable, and it would take too much effort to do that. So unless that situation in Chromium changed atom-shell won't support this."

So, maaaaybe someday, but I wouldn't hold my breath. If you want to go the extra mile, lobbying the Electron/Chromium projects for this feature is probably what would help mosts.

[leoherzog]

Womp womp. Thanks for the info!

[finnie2006]

Is this something that will maybe happen at some point?