const path = require('path'); const spawn = require('child_process').spawn; const app = require('electron').app; function run_update_exe(args, done) { // Invokes Squirrel's Update.exe which will do things for us like create shortcuts // Note that there's an Update.exe in the app-x.x.x directory and one in the parent // directory: we need to run the one in the parent directory, because it discovers // information about the app by inspecting the directory it's run from. const updateExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'Update.exe'); console.log('Spawning `%s` with args `%s`', updateExe, args); spawn(updateExe, args, { detached: true }).on('close', done); }; function check_squirrel_hooks() { if (process.platform != 'win32') return false; const cmd = process.argv[1]; const target = path.basename(process.execPath); if (cmd === '--squirrel-install' || cmd === '--squirrel-updated') { run_update_exe(['--createShortcut=' + target + ''], app.quit); return true; } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-uninstall') { run_update_exe(['--removeShortcut=' + target + ''], app.quit); return true; } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-obsolete') { app.quit(); return true; } return false; } module.exports = check_squirrel_hooks;