This is likely a very specific issue to my setup, but on the off chance this helps someone, I figured I would share it.
During Electron builds, whilst building for Windows (NSIS) using GitLab CI on Windows, I kept hitting the following error, causing the build to fail:
⨯ cannot execute cause=exec: "C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\electron-builder-cache\\winCodeSign\\winCodeSign-2.6.0\\rcedit-x64.exe": file does not exist
command='C:\Windows\TEMP\electron-builder-cache\winCodeSign\winCodeSign-2.6.0\rcedit-x64.exe' 'C:\gitlab-ci-runner\builds\3RB9ixUo\0\affiliatestatstracker\app\release\win-unpacked\Affiliate Stats Tracker.exe' --set-version-string FileDescription 'Affiliate Stats Tracker' --set-version-string ProductName 'Affiliate Stats Tracker' --set-version-string LegalCopyright 'Copyright © 2020 A6Software' --set-file-version 1.10.0.111 --set-product-version 1.10.0.111 --set-version-string InternalName 'Affiliate Stats Tracker' --set-version-string OriginalFilename '' --set-version-string CompanyName A6Software --set-icon 'C:\gitlab-ci-runner\builds\3RB9ixUo\0\affiliatestatstracker\app\release\.icon-ico\icon.ico'
workingDir=
• Above command failed, retrying 0 more times
error Command failed with exit code 1.The fix to this is to ensure the GitLab CI Runner is running as an admin user.
In my case, this means starting Power Shell using “run as administrator”, and then stopping / restarting the GitLab CI Runner.
My issue was caused, it would seem, by running the runner outside of the administrator mode / in regular Power Shell. I don’t use Windows much, sue me.
Anyway, another debug step on this one is to browse to the GitLab CI runner directory, go into the builds directory, right to the dir where GitLab CI left all the files after the previous run failed. From there, you should be able to manually build the project. If you can, likely you have the same issue I had as above.
Like I say, a very specific issue. But hopefully it helps someone, at some point.
