How to install third-party services at install time

[zzkkui]

If my service depends on a third-party service (for example, an exe file needs to be installed), how to include the third-party service when packaging. And automatically install this 3rd party service during installation? I tried bundler.externalBin , but how do I get it to install automatically during installation?

[ProfNuru]

Have you gotten a solution to this?

[CaseSens]

the bundler.externalBin didn't work? You should be able to run the binary (exe) from Rust using this.

If somehow that doesn't work as intended, you can always, on launch, run the .exe manually using (std::process::Command) .
This could look something like:

fn main() {
  #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
  {
    let _ = Command::new("<path\to\your\executable.exe")
      .spawn()
      .expect("Failed to start executable");
  }

  tauri::Builder::default()
    .run(tauri::generate_context!())
    .expect("error while running tauri application");
}