Electron Prebuilt

This project contains a prebuilt Electron for Windows x64 with winax and ffi that require rebuild against corresponding header files.

Getting started

Simply run npm install electron-prebuilt-win to install and then launch electron from the dist directory.

Electron will only search node_modules from the application directory or upper, so these prebuilt node modules dist/node_modules will not be able to loaded. Here is a workaround:

set "ELECTRON_HOME=path\to\electron-prebuilt-win\dist"
set "PATH=%ELECTRON_HOME%;%PATH%"
start "" electron.exe myapp

In the entry point (e.g. main.js), add this line at top

const prebuiltModuleDir = process.env.ELECTRON_HOME + '\\resources\\node_modules'
require('module').globalPaths.push(prebuiltModuleDir)

How to build

1. Download iojs headers for Windows with this ./get_iojs.sh 2.02.2 (from amazon.s3 slow!)
2. Run ./build.sh (you can comment out some sub tasks, if your project is file size sensitive)

TODO

Electron release cycle seems to be quite active these days. I'm not sure I could update the major release asap. My current focus to keep the latest stable versions to be synchronized. Unstable versions or lagacy stable version might not be taken good care of. Here are some todo items:

1. If you are a Travis expert, please help to make the build in Travis CI system.
2. If you have special needs of certain Electron version, please contact me with Wechat "qxu0000".