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electron dependency is swapped with electronNM at packaging.

Minify is disabled by default (see bottom of build()).

Hi everyone!

For anyone that want to install it on aarch64 (like Pinebook Pro or Pi4) you need to edit PKGBUILD at line 9 to add 'aarch64' as follows:

arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')

And then add this code to the case statement at line 38:

    aarch64)
        _vscode_arch=arm64
        ;;

If you have less than 8GB RAM on your system (like on Pinebook Pro or Pi4) then make sure to add a swap partition or swap file to increase your RAM before compiling.

Thank you very much @Zrax for creating this package, it has been incredibly useful to me and so many people!

For everyone like me that prefer a patch file, here is the Git patch:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 282fdd7..c692486 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pkgname=code-git
 pkgdesc='The Open Source build of Visual Studio Code (vscode) editor - git latest'
 pkgver=1.38.0.r1831.g3d3202804b
 pkgrel=1
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7h')
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
 url='https://github.com/microsoft/vscode'
 license=('MIT')
 depends=('electron' 'libsecret' 'libx11' 'libxkbfile' 'ripgrep')
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ case "$CARCH" in
     armv7h)
         _vscode_arch=arm
         ;;
+    aarch64)
+        _vscode_arch=arm64
+        ;;
     *)
         # Needed for mksrcinfo
         _vscode_arch=DUMMY

I still get the same node-gyp error with electron6 pacman package (any node_modules/* module, e. g. native-watchdog, native-keymap, ...). I tried it with nodejs-lts-dubnium and nodejs.

Edit: Now it's

[20:16:18] 'vscode-linux-x64-min' errored after 14 min
[20:16:18] Error: Missing Electron option: version.
    at electron (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/node_modules/gulp-atom-electron/src/index.js:65:9)
    at /run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/gulpfile.vscode.js:271:10
    at /run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:44:28
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at _doExecute (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:33:12)
    at _execute (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:24:11)
    at vscode-linux-x64-min-ci (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:63:19)
    at async _execute (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:24:5)
    at async result (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:63:13)
    at async _execute (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:24:5)
    at async vscode-linux-x64-min (/run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/build/lib/task.js:63:13)

I don't know anything about the electron provided by npm... I meant using the version provided by arch (e.g. by downloading from https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/e/electron/ ). When I tested the latest 6.1 version from there yesterday, it built correctly.

Also doesn't work with electron6 installed by npm (using sudo npm install electron@6-1-x -g --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root)

[user@archlinux code-git]$ electron --version
v6.1.4

I get

[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[1/11] ⡀ keytar
[2/11] ⡀ native-is-elevated
[3/11] ⡀ native-keymap
[4/11] ⡀ native-watchdog
error /run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/node_modules/native-is-elevated: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node-gyp rebuild
Arguments: 
Directory: /run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/node_modules/native-is-elevated
Output:
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@6.0.1
gyp info using node@12.13.0 | linux | x64
gyp info find Python using Python version 3.7.4 found at "/usr/bin/python3"
gyp http GET https://atom.io/download/electron/v12.13.0/node-v12.13.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http 403 https://atom.io/download/electron/v12.13.0/node-v12.13.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: 403 response downloading https://atom.io/download/electron/v12.13.0/node-v12.13.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp ERR! stack     at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/install.js:187:14)
gyp ERR! stack     at Request.emit (events.js:215:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Request.onRequestResponse (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/node_modules/request/request.js:1066:10)
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:210:5)
gyp ERR! stack     at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient [as onIncoming] (_http_client.js:583:27)
gyp ERR! stack     at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:115:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:456:22)
gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:210:5)
gyp ERR! stack     at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:308:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:289:11)
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.3.8-arch1-1
gyp ERR! command "/usr/lib/node_modules/node/lib/node_modules/node/bin/node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/node_modules/native-is-elevated

sudo node-gyp install node-headers -g prints

gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@6.0.1
gyp info using node@12.13.0 | linux | x64
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v12.13.0/node-v12.13.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v12.13.0/node-v12.13.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v12.13.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v12.13.0/SHASUMS256.txt
12.13.0
gyp info ok 

but still same error.

This package installs as "code-git" rather than "code", and to its own directory. Therefore, it can be installed side-by-side with either code-bin or code

Maybe I'm dumb, but shouldn't this be set to conflict with the code package? (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/) At least I'm fairly certain they will start fighting about the right to the 'code' command.

Potentially the same issue exists for visual-studio-code-bin, visual-studio-code-insiders or even vscodium-bin

For now, you'll need to install an old (6.x) version of electron to build code-git. I'll see about getting an electron6 package to avoid requiring an old version of the "main" electron package.

I get this error using yay -S --devel --timeupdate --rebuild --mflags "mem_limit=7000" code-git:

gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.3.7-arch1-2-ARCH
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /run/media/user/user/yay/code-git/src/vscode/node_modules/nsfw

Edit: still fails when building fresh packages

Package updated to bump up the default mem limit (6G) and switch back to electron 6.0.