Cannot launch desktop bundle on Windows 11

[Yorie]

Problem

Hi guys,
was playing with Dioxus desktop + fullstack project, and dived into bundling on Windows 11 to check how the final app looks.

I've created default Dioxus bare-bones app with fullstack and tailwind support included:

This guideline says that if you have chosen the fullstack option, everything described in the guide should be already set up. But that's not true - I still have to adjust features section in Cargo.toml because they look like this:

[features]
default = ["desktop"] # <-- Should be empty.
web = ["dioxus/web"]
desktop = ["dioxus/desktop"]
mobile = ["dioxus/mobile"]
# <-- server section should be here.

No problem, fixed by the guideline:

[features]
default = []
web = ["dioxus/web"]
desktop = ["dioxus/desktop"]
mobile = ["dioxus/mobile"]
server = ["dioxus/server"]

Also fixed missing [bundle] section by providing identifier and publisher, but don't think it is matter. May be it would be nice to have these properties pre-filled by dx.

Also, went into windows icon problem that lead me to googling the issue:

ERROR Failed to bundle project: PathUtilError(
    "Path \"D:\\Projects\\karma3\\karma3\\icons/icon.ico\" does not exist or you don't have access",
)
   9.509s ERROR err=BundleFailed(PathUtilError("Path \"D:\\Projects\\karma3\\karma3\\icons/icon.ico\" does not exist or you don't have access"))

Okay, just added icons/icon.ico, because it seems there is no way to change this path (or I missing something).
I really love how Dioxus is architected, but catching 3+ errors during bundling default application is a bit disappointing.

Bundled app with dx bundle --platform desktop. As a result, I've got the bundle, installed it via .msi intaller to C:\Program Files\....
On launch app crashes with:

thread 'main' panicked at C:\Users\***\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\dioxus-desktop-0.6.3\src\webview.rs:400:39:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: WebView2Error(WindowsError(Error { code: HRESULT(0x80070005), message: "Access is denied." }))
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Okay, something is not right with access level. Then I ran it as administrator with elevated privileges. Got this:

And new folder karma.exe.WebView2 appeared in the app directory.

Okay, went to the recently created karma.exe.WebView2 folder properties and checked modify + write checkboxes in Users group.

After this last step application launches correctly.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• Create base-bones dx project with router, fullstack, tailwind enabled;
• Adjust Cargo.toml to support fullstack as described above;
• Bundle app with dx bundle --platform desktop;
• Install bundled app with .msi package;
• Open app.

Expected behavior

Application should run normally.

Environment:

• Dioxus version: dioxus 0.6.3 (fc1f1c2)
• Rust version: rustc 1.88.0 (6b00bc388 2025-06-23)
• OS info: Windows 11
• App platform: Desktop

Questionnaire

It was my first experience with Dioxus, so may be I've missed something during setup of the project.

[sixties]

The same behaviour occurs for my application but Windows 10. Are we missing something in the config?

[sixties]

I've just found out that it is possible to set a data directory and let it point e.g. to the user's AppData directory. But this has to be done in the config while starting the app (main.rs). Something like this:

fn main() {
  dioxus::desktop::WindowBuilder::new().with_title("Opossum");
  dioxus::LaunchBuilder::new()
    .with_cfg(
  dioxus::desktop::Config::new()
    .with_window(window)
    .with_data_directory(Path::new("<data path>")))
    .launch(<root component>);
}

But it is still a bit cumbersome and it should rather be a config option in Dioxus.toml.

[lingdiansr]

Same problem, but no access level problem.
Dioxus.toml via [bundle] icon="...", it really doesn't work in windows.
And in my arch linux, too, only absolute paths are valid and relative paths cannot be used.
Hopefully this pr #3753 can fix it.