angular - Electron Application run on apple silicon ARM64

Question

We are able to ran the Electron desktop application by using electron-builder along with dmg on X64.If we want to run same application on apple silicon(ARM64), We installed following dependancies(X64)
1 Xcode 12 and upgrade Mac to Bix sur.
2 "npm install [email protected]"
3 node-gyp(7.1.2)

but, found below errors:

"ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'require' of null"

Also while building and packaging the application we want to add extraFiles. Kindly suggest if any solution.

Also read about electron-packager,but How can we add extra files using the same.

Answer 1

I don't know how to resolve your error but I can suggest to you to install the latest electron release and not a beta version. If you think the beta can be the best way to use with an apple silicon (I don't now if the latest beta is compiled for it) you can try it equally, because macOS will compile electron for you... (it can takes about 20 seconds to compile).