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Electron Forge version

^7.5.0

Electron version

32.1.2

Operating system

Windows 11

Last known working Electron Forge version

No response

Expected behavior

Open executable successfully

Actual behavior

This error occurs after using the command: electron-forge make. Once the application is built, when double clicking on the .exe it throws the following error:

This ERROR occurs when using vite or vite-typescript templates. If we use webpack or webpack-typescript it works without problems.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a terminal and execute: npm init electron-app@latest my-app -- --template=vite or npm init electron-app@latest my-app -- --template=vite-typescript
2. Execute: npm run make
3. Execute the .exe created by npm run make
4. ¡ERROR!

Additional information

Files:

Package json:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "productName": "my-app",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "My Electron application description",
  "main": ".vite/build/main.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron-forge start",
    "package": "electron-forge package",
    "make": "electron-forge make",
    "publish": "electron-forge publish",
    "lint": "echo \"No linting configured\""
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@electron-forge/cli": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/maker-deb": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/maker-rpm": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/maker-squirrel": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/maker-zip": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/plugin-auto-unpack-natives": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/plugin-fuses": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron-forge/plugin-vite": "^7.5.0",
    "@electron/fuses": "^1.8.0",
    "electron": "32.1.2",
    "vite": "^5.0.12"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "electron-squirrel-startup": "^1.0.1"
  }
}