Add IpcRendererEventChannel to window

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gui/src/renderer/app.tsx b/gui/src/renderer/app.tsx
index 716e5c88e3..a877c7aacb 100644
--- a/gui/src/renderer/app.tsx
+++ b/gui/src/renderer/app.tsx
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import versionActions from './redux/version/actions';
 import { ICurrentAppVersionInfo } from '../main';
 import { messages, relayLocations } from '../shared/gettext';
 import { IGuiSettingsState, SYSTEM_PREFERRED_LOCALE_KEY } from '../shared/gui-settings-state';
-import { IpcRendererEventChannel, IRelayListPair } from '../shared/ipc-event-channel';
+import { IRelayListPair } from '../shared/ipc-event-channel';
 import { ILinuxSplitTunnelingApplication } from '../shared/application-types';
 import log, { ConsoleOutput } from '../shared/logging';
 import consumePromise from '../shared/promise';
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ import {
 import { LogLevel } from '../shared/logging-types';
 import IpcOutput from './lib/logging';
 
+const IpcRendererEventChannel = window.ipc;
+
 interface IPreferredLocaleDescriptor {
   name: string;
   code: string;
diff --git a/gui/src/renderer/preload.ts b/gui/src/renderer/preload.ts
index 4732b792a6..2eacea5b8c 100644
--- a/gui/src/renderer/preload.ts
+++ b/gui/src/renderer/preload.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 import { loadTranslations } from '../shared/gettext';
+import { IpcRendererEventChannel } from '../shared/ipc-event-channel';
 
 window.loadTranslations = (locale, catalogue) => loadTranslations(locale, catalogue);
+window.ipc = IpcRendererEventChannel;
diff --git a/gui/types/global/index.d.ts b/gui/types/global/index.d.ts
index 870d164379..4245afeba0 100644
--- a/gui/types/global/index.d.ts
+++ b/gui/types/global/index.d.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import Gettext from 'node-gettext';
+import { IpcRendererEventChannel } from '../../src/shared/ipc-event-channel';
 
 declare global {
   interface Window {
     loadTranslations(locale: string, catalogue: Gettext): void;
+    ipc: typeof IpcRendererEventChannel;
   }
 }