file path cannot longer than 260 about windows-installer HOT 6 CLOSED

Try npm dedupe to decrease the nesting of your directories. Also, in the directory where you're creating your installer, type in this command:
find . -type d -print|awk '{print length($0), $0}'|sort -n|tail -10 to get the lengths of the longest paths. I found that if the longest path was < 200, creating the installer worked fine. But you need to make it less than 260, there is no workaround for that.

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@caibirdme If you update to npm 3.x.x this issue will probably go away. Simply run npm i -g npm and then reinstall your node_modules directory

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@MarshallOfSound I'm using npm 3.8.3,I think it's a problem of sqlite3.All the long path files come from sqlite3 module.

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@mzmousa Thanks very much!! npm dedupe works fine.

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Np. Also what @MarshallOfSound said, upgrading to npm 3+ and reinstall your node modules, I don't think you'll need a dedupe then. But npm 3+ limits nesting in the node modules, making you not have to do a dedupe

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@mzmousa I'm using npm3+ all the time...I think it might be a problem of sqlite3 that use node-pre-gyp to install its dependencies

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