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yarn run v1.22.22
$ yarn run build:ts && yarn run build:res && electron-builder
$ tsc
$ tsx scripts/copy-res.ts
  • electron-builder  version=26.0.16 os=6.15.2-arch1-1
  • artifacts will be published if draft release exists  reason=CI detected
  • loaded configuration  file=/home/iud5/.cache/yay/element-desktop-git/src/element-desktop/electron-builder.ts
  • writing effective config  file=dist/builder-effective-config.yaml
  • executing @electron/rebuild  electronVersion=36.4.0 arch=x64 buildFromSource=false appDir=./
  • installing native dependencies  arch=x64
  • preparing       moduleName=keytar-forked arch=x64
  • finished        moduleName=keytar-forked arch=x64
  • completed installing native dependencies
  • packaging       platform=linux arch=x64 electron=36.4.0 appOutDir=dist/linux-unpacked
(node:205091) [DEP0190] DeprecationWarning: Passing args to a child process with shell option true can lead to security vulnerabilities, as the arguments are not escaped, only concatenated.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
  • executing @electron/fuses  electronPath=dist/linux-unpacked/element-desktop
  • building        target=tar.gz arch=x64 file=dist/element-desktop-1.11.103.tar.gz
  • building        target=deb arch=x64 file=dist/element-desktop_1.11.103_amd64.deb
  • adding autoupdate files for: deb. (Beta feature)  resourceDir=dist/linux-unpacked/resources
  ⨯ GitHub Personal Access Token is not set, neither programmatically, nor using env "GH_TOKEN"
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: element-desktop-git-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
element-web-git - exit status 4
element-desktop-git - exit status 4

With nodejs version 23 this crashes with Segmentation Fault.

Latest working nodejs version seems to be 22, lowest 20.

You need to adapt the build script to use explicit version.

(This also should be done for electron, by the way.)

See e.g. the PKGBUILD of schildichat-desktop-git on how to implement versioned nodejs and electron in the build script.

Regards and thanks for the package!

Hey I'm noticing the latest builds seem to fail, reporting a missing "rimraf" command. It appears to be a node module that i guess isn't getting bundled or upstream forgot to bundle it.

yarn run v1.22.22 $ yarn clean && yarn build:genfiles && yarn build:bundle $ rimraf lib webapp /bin/sh: line 1: rimraf: command not found error Command failed with exit code 127. info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command. error Command failed with exit code 127. info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... error: failed to build 'element-desktop-git-1.11.39.r16.g65f7545ba5-2 (element-web-git element-desktop-git)': error: packages failed to build: element-desktop-git-1.11.39.r16.g65f7545ba5-2 (element-web-git element-desktop-git)

I can't build it and here's what I got:

  -> Creating working copy of element-web git repo...
Cloning into 'element-web'...
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
done.
  -> Creating working copy of element-desktop git repo...
Cloning into 'element-desktop'...
/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
done.
==> Starting prepare()...
/home/tjw123hh/.cache/paru/clone/element-desktop-git/PKGBUILD: line 41: 74442 Illegal instruction     (core dumped) yarn install --no-fund
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'element-desktop-git-1.11.39.r16.g65f7545ba5-2 (element-web-git element-desktop-git)': 
error: packages failed to build: element-desktop-git-1.11.39.r16.g65f7545ba5-2 (element-web-git element-desktop-git)

On my computer I had to change the yarn build --offline command to yarn --offline build as yarn thought the --offline option was for the build script instead of itself

Please update the node dependency to the needed newer version, thanks

this package requires node >= 18.0.0 since element 1.11.34

As jplatte said this still requires libxcrypt-compat as a build dependency