64bit version of Electron SDK

Meeting SDK Electron
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Description
I am wondering if there is any plans on being able to build the SDK as a 64 bit application? As building with vs2015 on a Windows 10 box is a major lift. Also it would be helpful to get the full steps needed to build this app on a Windows 10. It seems that just saying “make sure you have msvc-2015 installed”, is a huge understatement of the steps involved.

Also after I build the app it seems that the ipcRenderer call on the domain window isn’t functioning correctly even after a successful build.

Which version?
Lastest from github

Thanks,
Nate

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Any chance you could provide me with a zip of the 32 bit demo app that is runnable on windows 10?

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Hi Nate,

Thanks for the post. Regarding your questions:

  1. We do not have any plans for Electron SDK 64-bit at the moment due to the limited demands and the limited resources that we have. I will pass this as an enhancement request to the engineering team and we will investigate the possibility of supporting this in the future.
  2. Based on your description, it sounds like you are unable to build our SDK with VS2015. (Is the Windows 10 box you are referring to a TV/media box device that runs Windows 10?) If so, you could:
    • If you using Electron 5.0.2, then you could directly use the node files included in our SDK
    • Based on your MSVS version, modify the configurations in build_nodeaddon_win_ia32.bat:
call node-gyp rebuild --target=%elec_ver% --arch=ia32 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron --release --msvs_version=2015
  1. You may find the Electron SDK demo here: https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-electron, it is runnable on Windows 10 if you are installing Electron 5.0.2. If you would like to use other Electron version, you need to rebuild the node files.

Hope this helps. Thanks!

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Hi Carson,

We are trying to build on the latest electron build 7.1.7. Being up to date with the newest from chrome there is really important to our app.

We seemed to have gotten around the build issue with Windows 10. Though I would still really like to be able to provide a 64 bit version of our app. I understand the time and resources issues. If we could get some visibility into what it would take to get a 64 bit version, that would be great.

Thanks,

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Hi Nate,

Thanks for the reply. If you would like to use the existing node files, you need to use Electron 5.0.2. If you would like to use other Electron versions, you need to rebuild the node files.

Regarding the 64-bit version, thanks for sharing your use cases, I have forwarded this request to our engineering team and we will investigate the possibility of supporting this in the future, please follow our Github repo: https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-electron for any updates.

Thanks!