How to pass environment variables to build ?

[alxpereira]

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Electron Forge version

7.2.0

Electron version

v28.2.3

Operating system

macOS 14.2.1

Last known working Electron Forge version

No response

Expected behavior

I have an issue on using the make command and passing env variables.
As on a lot of projects, I'm setting all my env variables in a .env file at the root of the project.
When running the project using npm run start, no issue, everything works well (_VITE and also dotenv related variables are load)
But when trying to build the DMG using npm run make the variables are not loaded.

Actual behavior

The variables are not loaded in main / loader / renderer. (undefined)

Steps to reproduce

Run npm run make using a .env file and some variables in the the main or renderer.

Additional information

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[BigerXie]

+1

[BigerXie]

@alxpereira hi bro, do you have any solution to fix this problem?

[alxpereira]

@alxpereira hi bro, do you have any solution to fix this problem?

for the moment, nope.. I will in the end maybe pass the env file directly in the build process forcing dot-env to parse it directly in my files. But that won't be the final clean solution.

[BigerXie]

@alxpereira Hi, my application bulit it with electron-forge & vite-typescript & vue, so I found this https://github.com/electron/forge/issues/3375 can sovle my problem, and BTW I pass NODE_ENV from npm command as environment variable. hope it can help you or give you some inspires. thanks your replay.

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