Platform conversion failed error during release build

[FranzBan]

This is a very annoying problem while generating release build files. Here is the steps I did while buiding:

1. Select Project > Export Release Build

2. Select Signed Native Installer

3. Import certificate

4. Click Next.

I always got the following error:

I have the following setup:

OS: Windows 8.1

System type: 64-bit

Flash Builder Version: 4.6 Premium

Installed FB: FlashBuilder_4_6_LS10.exe

Please help. This is giving me a lot of headaches for a couple of days now.

[FranzBan]

Additionally, here's the stack trace:

java.io.IOException: Platform conversion failed. Process exited with error 5. Output was "[ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception Error: EndUpdateResource: Windows Error #5" errorID=0]

"

  at com.adobe.air.nai.NativePackager.conversionFail(NativePackager.java:222)

  at com.adobe.air.nai.NativePackager.invokePlatformConversion(NativePackager.java:203)

  at com.adobe.air.nai.NativePackager.createPackage(NativePackager.java:92)

  at com.adobe.flexbuilder.multisdk.apollo.export.AIRNativeInstallerPackager.create(AIRNativeInstallerPackager.java:129)

  at com.adobe.flexbuilder.exportimport.releaseversion.ExportReleaseVersionManager.doExport(ExportReleaseVersionManager.java:586)

  at com.adobe.flexbuilder.exportimport.releaseversion.ui.ExportReleaseVersionWizard$1.run(ExportReleaseVersionWizard.java:208)

Message:

Platform conversion failed. Process exited with error 5. Output was "[ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception Error: EndUpdateResource: Windows Error #5" errorID=0]

"

I also suspect this is because of the following settings:

Eclipse.ini

FlashBuilder.ini

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Notice that the plugin used is not intended for x64 processors.

Please help.

[FranzBan]

I see this similar issue reported in Apache Flex but not yet fixed:

[FLEX-24594] ADT fails with exit code 5 (Unknown error) - ASF JIRA

[FranzBan · Accepted solution]

I tried installing windows 7 32-bit operating system and I no longer have problems on exporting release builds. I'm just wondering if Adobe released Flash Builder 4.6 for x64 operating systems.

[RampantShadow]

In case any one finds this later on, I had this same issue but I fixed if by re-linking my Library Path files (even if they look correct they don't seem to connect for some reason) this resolved my issue, hopefully this is easier to do than re-installing or installing a fresh operating system to get it done.