bun not running local package bin

[jdion84]

What version of Bun is running?

1.0.0+822a00c4d508b54f650933a73ca5f4a3af9a7983

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 22.6.0 arm64 arm

What steps can reproduce the bug?

create file my_modules/bunclitest/package.json:

{
  "name": "bunclitest",
  "module": "index.ts",
  "type": "module",
  "bin": {
    "bunclitest": "bin.js"
  }
}

create file my_modules/bunclitest/bin.js:

#!/usr/bin/env node

console.log("hello bin");

open my_modules dir in terminal and run bun link

open project root folder and run bun link bunclitest --save

run bunx myclitest

nothing is outputted to console.

What is the expected behavior?

hello bin should be outputted to console when running bunx bunclitest

What do you see instead?

nothing

Additional information

No response

[cyfung1031]

Same issue. From my case, error: missing script XXXXX is printed.

I believe this is MacOS specific bug.

[futured-it]

Yeah. Same thing, on Mac too. I guess, bun link ... simply doesn't register your project to bash commands as Node does.

[futured-it]

I guess, as a temporary solution you could link it with Node.js using npm link, and add #!/usr/bin/env bun inside of your JS (or TS) runtime file. That's stupid, but probably it'll work.

[futured-it]

I did some researches and realised that the fix is so easy: You should use string as a bin value, not object, so instead of this:

{
  "name": "bunclitest",
  "module": "index.ts",
  "type": "module",
  "bin": {
    "bunclitest": "bin.js"
  }
}

do like this:

{
  "name": "bunclitest",
  "module": "index.ts",
  "type": "module",
  "bin": "bin.js"
}

[jdion84]

You should use string as a bin value, not object

no, you shouldnt

[futured-it]

You should use string as a bin value, not object

no, you shouldnt

Well, in my situation that's fixed the problem. It doesn't work with object on my and these peoples machines for some reasons.

[cpakken]

bin commands still not working with bun linked packages as of version 1.18

[ghost]

I figured this out

after you add the bin to the local package, just do bun link on it again

[mkv27]

If you install bun via homebrew and do nothing else is not going to work. Installing via curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash solve the problem