Electron fails to run if installed with npm link packages on Windows

[mateon1]

• Electron version: 1.3.5 and 1.4.2
• Operating system: Windows 10 x64

When electron is run, on both versions an error window pops up saying "A JavaScript error occurred in the main process" including a stack trace.
In 1.4.2 the stack trace is displayed in the console as well:

> electron .


App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot find module 'ipfsd-ctl'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (C:\Users\matin\orbit\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\dist\resources\electron.asar\common\reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\matin\orbit\index.js:13:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)

ipfsd-ctl does exist under ./node_modules, but it's an NTFS junction created by npm link. Apparently, Electron doesn't like that and throws.

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P.S. I consider this an installation issue, but this might belong to electron/electron. I decided to post here.

[mateon1]

Affects Electron 1.4.3 as well.

[MrBlenny]

I am also having this issue. Is there any solution?

[zeke]

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