bundling precompiled binary into electron app

Question

Is there a good solution on how to include third party pre compiled binaries like imagemagick into an electron app? there are node.js modules but they are all wrappers or na

Answer 1

following Ganesh answer's which was really a great help, in my case what was working in binaries.js (for a mac build - did not test for windows or linux) was:

"use strict";
import path from "path";
import { app } from "electron";

const IS_PROD = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
const root = process.cwd();
const { isPackaged } = app;

const binariesPath =
  IS_PROD && isPackaged
    ? path.join(process.resourcesPath, "./bin")
    : path.join(root, "./external");

export const execPath = path.join(binariesPath, "./my_exec_name");

Considering that my_exec_name was in the folder ./external/bin and copied in the app package in ./Resources/bin. I did not use the get_platforms.js script (not needed in my case). app.getAppPath() was generating a crash when the app was packaged. Hope it can help.