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Sentry error reports showcase that elevation errors on Windows are one of the most frequent Windows errors. In order to perform Windows elevation, we ship compiled EXEs of a third party CLI elevation application (http://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/) that has several limitations: - We have the scan the output of the script to determine if a user cancelled the elevation request, which causes all sorts of issues on computers where English is not the main language - The application displays a `cmd.exe` window for some milliseconds, which is bad UX, that we have to workaround by distributing a patched version of the tool - The CLI application has to be spawned, which seems to be problematic if users have anti-virus software, leading to hard to debug issues - We don't have any control if something goes wrong For these reasons, we decided to implement our own elevation mechanism in C++ as a Node.js add-on, based on the `elevate.exe` code we where previously using. Misc changes: - Introduce a `lib/shared/bindings.js` module to easily require local native add-ons - Install `cpplint` and configure it to lint C++ files Note that for practical reasons, the C++ code lives in this repository rather than in a separate module. We will release this functionality in a more accessible way in the future as part of the Etcher SDK project. Change-Type: patch Changelog-Entry: Fix uncaught errors when cancelling elevation requests on Windows when the system's language is not English. Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>