NixOS: Receiving an error of command failed when attempting to utilize the plugin on a fresh install.

[saurin-tech]

I'm attempting to use the plugin with gradle version of 7.6 but I'm running into the error shown below.

Task :b:npmInstall FAILED
npm ERR! code 127
npm ERR! path /home/dev/a/b/c/node_modules/@swc/core
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node postinstall.js
npm ERR! sh: line 1: /home/dev/a/b/c/.gradle/nodejs/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64/bin/node: cannot execute: required file not found

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: x.log

Contents of x.log file

verbose stack Error: command failed
1083 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/dev/a/b/c/.gradle/nodejs/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/lib/index.js:53:27)
1083 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:514:28)
1083 verbose stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1091:16)
1083 verbose stack     at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:449:11)
1083 verbose stack     at Socket.emit (node:events:514:28)
1083 verbose stack     at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:323:12)
1084 verbose pkgid @swc/core@1.3.81
1085 verbose cwd /home/dev/a/b/c
1086 verbose Linux 6.1.49
1087 verbose node v18.17.1
1088 verbose npm  v9.6.7
1089 error code 127
1090 error path /home/dev/a/b/c/node_modules/@swc/core
1091 error command failed
1092 error command sh -c node postinstall.js
1093 error sh: line 1: /home/dev/a/b/c/.gradle/nodejs/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64/bin/node: cannot execute: required file not found
1094 verbose exit 127
1095 timing npm Completed in 11972ms
1096 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1693431512159
1097 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:build 1693431523676
1098 verbose unfinished npm timer build 1693431523676
1099 verbose unfinished npm timer build:deps 1693431523676
1100 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall 1693431523683
1101 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/@swc/core 1693431523683
1102 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/esbuild 1693431523711
1103 verbose code 127
1104 error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/dev/.npm/_logs/2023-08-30T21_38_31_938Z-debug-0.log

contents of the build.gradle.kts file

import com.github.gradle.node.npm.task.NpmTask

plugins {
    id("com.github.node-gradle.node")
}

// Configure the plugin to download and use specific Node version
node {
    version.set("18.17.1")
    npmInstallCommand.set("install")
    download.set(true)
}

// Register NpmTask that will do what "npm run build" command does.
tasks.register<NpmTask>("npmBuild") {
    dependsOn(listOf("npmInstall"))
    npmCommand.set(listOf("run","build"))
    inputs.dir("src")
}

tasks.named<NpmTask>("npmInstall") {
    args.set(listOf("--loglevel verbose"))
}

Gradle output shows error caused by statement shown below

Caused by: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/home/dev/a/b/c/.gradle/nodejs/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64/bin/npm'' finished with non-zero exit value 127

Thank you in advance!

[deepy]

Are you able to check if the /home/dev/a/b/c/.gradle/nodejs/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64/bin/node file exists and if the nodeSetup task finished successfully? And then just to confirm, you're not on Alpine or another musl-based system right?

[saurin-tech]

> Task :a:clean UP-TO-DATE
> Task :b:nodeSetup UP-TO-DATE
> Task :b:npmSetup SKIPPED
> Task :b:npmInstall

File does exist at the location listed above but when I try to execute it in terminal I receive an error zsh: no such file or directory:

I'm trying to run this on NixOS

[deepy]

Ah, well I've got good and bad news for you. The bad news is you're gonna have to do some changes, but the good news I recently installed NixOS and have a basic idea of what those are 😀

You're going to need either a FHS or use something like nix-ld (or the very heavy approach of steam-run). Personally I'm using nix-ld together with nix-direnv to set what I need to work on this project. Unfortunately I need to run that flake with --impure since I don't know how to do that "properly", but this works well enough for me https://github.com/node-gradle/gradle-node-plugin/blob/1ea8bf828630c344ac8fc243e01f61c0beb223f4/flake.nix#L25-L28

Basically it's the same issue as with musl, if you run ldd on the node binary you'll see that it's expecting glibc and it's not being found

[deepy]

And technically there's nothing this plugin can do to accommodate NixOS, this is a conscious decision from their project and while this may be awkward from the perspective of users there's several workarounds Before I made the flake above I just ran steam-run zsh before developing and that worked mostly great