Is there an Electron windows build filesize limit? - electron

I'm building an app with a lot of embedded HD videos; about 2.6GB of them. At about 2GB the build worked fine, but after adding a few more the build starts failing with the message
makensis process failed ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE
Is this a windows limitation, a mac build (wine) limit, an electron builder issue, or something else entirely?
I'm running OSX 12.5 (Monterey), Node 16, Electron 20, and electron-builder 23.3.

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You need Xcode and the iOS SDK to build an iOS .ipa.
Unfortunately, both are only available on a Mac.
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iOS
The iOS SDK does not run on Windows, so nothing to do here. Still
want to build for iOS, though? Check out Package, part of the Ionic
Cloud.
From the Ionic Package docs:
Packaging Native Binaries
Ionic Pro’s Package feature makes it easy to build native app binaries for iOS and Android in the cloud.
Perfect for automating binary builds and for developers using Windows
that want to build iOS apps.
That's your 1st option.
A 2nd option would be to use a Mac instead as your development environment.
If you're planning to be developing iOS apps long-term, then you really need a Mac.
(You can build Android .apk's on a Mac but not the other way around.)
A 3rd option is to run Mac OS on a virtual machine or setup your own "Hackintosh".
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