Why? -> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.

See original GitHub issue

> Warning Cannot include file %1 into executable.
  The file must be distributed with executable as %2.
  node_modules/opn/xdg-open
  path-to-executable/xdg-open

I guess the placeholder %1 should be replaced with the actual string.
Why can it not be included? I want to understand the reason behind it. Packaging my application to a single executable and then be forced to supply additional files kind of destroys the single executable claim.

Is there a way to fix this? On pkg or user level?

Thanks a lot 😃

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robertsLandocommented, Jul 31, 2018

For this I have create a script in package.json to copy each file that cannot be included in the exec in the executable dir (in my case the exec dir is dist specified in the option --out-path dist):

"scripts": {
    "package": "sudo pkg package.json -t node10-linux-x64 --out-path dist && cp ./node_modules/opn/xdg-open ./dist/xdg-open && cp <add here all others file you need to import>",
  },

Than simply run npm run package and that’s it 😄

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stuartelliscommented, Mar 19, 2019

I am seeing the same message when building on macOS Mojave, for macOS and Windows targets. Since this is not an error, and outside of the control of the pkg project, perhaps the best option is to add a note to the documentation.

Would the maintainers accept a docs PR for this?