Building a Windows build on a MacOS - Error: spawn yarn ENOENT

[bach]

I’m on a 2015 MacBook Pro and for the life of me, I cannot see why I cannot make an .exe build (Windows) on my Mac.

❯ quasar build --mode electron --target win

 Build mode........ electron
 Pkg quasar........ v1.9.8
 Pkg @quasar/app... v1.6.0
 Debugging......... no
 Publishing........ no

 app:quasar-conf Reading quasar.conf.js +0ms
 app:webpack Extending Renderer process Webpack config +3s
 app:webpack Extending Main process Webpack config +29ms
 app:artifacts Cleaned build artifact: "/Users/dan/code/ss/app/scr/dist/electron" +36ms
 app:generator Generating Webpack entry point +3ms
 app:build Building... +9ms

 Renderer process ███████████               building [44%] 288/289 modules 1 active
 Main process     █████████████████████████ [100%] in ~11s


 Renderer process █████████████████████████ [100%] in ~17s
 Main process     █████████████████████████ [100%] in ~11s



Version: webpack 4.41.6
Time: 17180ms
Built at: 03/07/2020 7:51:18 PM
                                         Asset       Size  Chunks                         Chunk Names
                          css/app.e85ae70d.css    191 KiB       1  [emitted] [immutable]  app
            fonts/KFOkCnqEu92Fr1MmgVxIIzQ.woff   19.9 KiB          [emitted]              
           fonts/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff     20 KiB          [emitted]              
           fonts/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc-.woff   19.9 KiB          [emitted]              
           fonts/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc-.woff   19.9 KiB          [emitted]              
           fonts/KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc-.woff   19.9 KiB          [emitted]              
               fonts/KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff   19.8 KiB          [emitted]              
       fonts/flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDsNa.woff   77.7 KiB          [emitted]              
fonts/flUhRq6tzZclQEJ-Vdg-IuiaDsNcIhQ8tQ.woff2   59.4 KiB          [emitted]              
                                    index.html  873 bytes          [emitted]              
                                       js/2.js   12.1 KiB       2  [emitted]              
                                       js/3.js   1.64 KiB       3  [emitted]              
                                       js/4.js  431 bytes       4  [emitted]              
                                     js/app.js   5.01 KiB       1  [emitted]              app
                                  js/vendor.js    231 KiB       0  [emitted]              vendor
Entrypoint app = js/vendor.js css/app.e85ae70d.css js/app.js



Version: webpack 4.41.6
Time: 11191ms
Built at: 03/07/2020 7:51:12 PM
           Asset       Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
electron-main.js   10.1 KiB       0  [emitted]  electron-main
    package.json  590 bytes          [emitted]  
Entrypoint electron-main = electron-main.js

 app:spawn Running "yarn install --production" +18s

events.js:174
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

  Error: spawn yarn ENOENT
  
  - child_process.js:240 Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit
    internal/child_process.js:240:19
  
  - child_process.js:415 onErrorNT
    internal/child_process.js:415:16
  
  - next_tick.js:63 process._tickCallback
    internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19
  

Emitted 'error' event at:
  
  - child_process.js:246 Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit
    internal/child_process.js:246:12
  
  - child_process.js:415 onErrorNT
    [... lines matching original stack trace ...]

[cynderkromi]

@bach Have you been able to build a windows exe on the Mac? I’m trying to do the same thing.

[dobbel]

@cynderkromi

here are some people having successfully build a windows build in macos in docker:
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/4305

[cynderkromi]

@dobbel Thanks I will check that out