How to run and pack external executable using Electron?

Question

For example, I have a compiled binary cudaDeviceQuery which returns a list of devices as JSON. Here\'s a piece of code:

export default function          


        

Answer 1

There are two things. If you set __dirname: true in your web app config you will get the relative path of the file from your context directory

If you set __dirname: false then __dirname will have the full path.

Development Mode

You have two options

1. Set __dirname: true and concatenate it with os.cwd()
2. Set __dirname: false and use __dirname directly

Production Mode

1. Set __dirname: true and use os.cwd().
2. Set __dirname: true and use process.resourcePath

I will prefer 2 as the preferred approach in production