Signing for Windows 10 hangs in 18.8.1 - With workaround

[logidelic]

• Version: 18.8.1

• Target: NSIS x64

I recently upgraded to electron-builder 18.8.1. Previously I was using 18.5.1 and signing was working correctly. Without any changes other than the upgrade to 18.8.1, I noticed that when building the installer, the process would hang at:

Signing CorpApp.exe (certificate file: "c:\Users\user\dev\corp\apps\certs\corp_code.p12")

Looking at the hung process I saw that it was trying to execute:

powershell.exe "(Get-PfxCertificate \"c:\Users\user\dev\corp\apps\certs\corp_code.p12\").Subject"

When I tried to execute this step manually I noticed that it was prompting me for a password. I tried to type in my certificate password where the electron-builder script was hung, and sure enough, that allowed the script to continue.

My password is specified correctly in the CSC_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable (and was working with 18.5.1)...

[develar]

Why closed?

[logidelic]

I had used npm upgrade which updated me to 18.8.1 so I thought that was the latest release, but I see in your releases that there are much newer releases, so I'm trying with the latest (19.6.3) as I type this...

[develar]

PowerShell/PowerShell#3970

[develar]

Nope, it is serious regression.