From 9f340c47d4da01f5dc07a8ac57b0e574a54cfc0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tommy Nguyen <4123478+tido64@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:17:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(windows): fix cannot find
 `@react-native-windows/cli/package.json`

---
 scripts/helpers.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/helpers.js b/scripts/helpers.js
index d8e80d2ad..ef5dcec94 100644
--- a/scripts/helpers.js
+++ b/scripts/helpers.js
@@ -95,11 +95,15 @@ function readJSONFile(path, fs = nodefs) {
  * @param {string=} startDir
  * @returns {T}
  */
-function requireTransitive(dependencyChain, startDir = process.cwd()) {
+function requireTransitive(
+  dependencyChain,
+  startDir = process.cwd(),
+  fs = nodefs
+) {
   const p = dependencyChain.reduce((curr, next) => {
     const p = require.resolve(next + "/package.json", { paths: [curr] });
     return path.dirname(p);
-  }, startDir);
+  }, fs.realpathSync(startDir));
   return require(p);
 }