Can't install Jitsi Electron version 2023.5.0

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Hi!
It seems that Jitsi Electron tries to update itself but that won’t work on my setup.

I receive the following message: Screenshot by Lightshot

It says in Portuguese, that “Entry point not found - It was impossible to find entry point in the DiscardVirtualMemory procedure in the dynamic KERNEL32.dll library”

I’m running Windows 7 and Electron version 2023.2.0 was working successfully on my setup.

Any possibility to get this running or to avoid the update all together?

I’m grateful for any suggestion!

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The problem is Chrome is no longer supported on Windows 7: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8/8.1 and Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 in early 2023 - Google Chrome Community

Electron is based on Chrome, the framework we use to build the desktop app, and thus we inherit these restrictions.

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I see, thanks Saghul!

In this case is it possible to avoid the automatic update and stay with the working version for now?

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I’m afraid not, sorry. You can make a custom build which disables auto-updates though.

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Saghul, thanks for your reply.

Can you point me to any documentation how to make a custom build?

I never did that before so I would need some newbie tutorials or docus.

Thanks!

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You can look at GitHub - jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron: Jitsi Meet desktop application powered by the section “Show building instructions”.

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Hi damencho!
I’ll take some time over the week end to have a look. Thanks!

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Please note that building an old version without updates means you will need to patch any security bugs yourself, and that is o Lu on the Jitsi side. Any Electron or Chromium security bugs would be unpatched.