How to use electron-forge-maker-nsis

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This isn’t a bug as much as a request for documentation. I am currently using Electron Forge on a project and wanted to use your electron-forge-maker-nsis package to help create a NSIS installer.

The documentation is very scant on how to do this within the Electron Forge framework.

I think it would be most helpful to know:

how to configure this within Electron Forge. Should there be a “nsis” key at the top level of my package.json?
how to run this task. I have tried just running the task straight (yarn electron-forge-maker-nsis) but that is not a valid command. How can I hook this into a scripts object so I can create a shortcut to run it?

Thanks for all your hard work in improving the Electron development landscape!

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factoronecommented, Nov 8, 2018

I’m also interested in doing this, as while Electron Builder does a great job of building everything for distribution, we’re using an instance of Atlassian’s Nucleus for distributing our application. Electron Forge has a much better integration with that platform for distribution, but the installers it generates for windows are, frankly, hot garbage from a visual standpoint.

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linonetwocommented, Jun 27, 2021

Do you have example of using this package?

I’m currently using

      "makers": [
        {
          "name": "@electron-forge/maker-squirrel",
          "config": {
            "setupIcon": "build-resources/icon.ico"
          }
        },

In electron forge.

If I switch to electron-forge-maker-nsis, how the config file will be? Where to put icon path?

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