Arch Linux User Repository

• The pkgbuild is hosted at https://github.com/FabioLolix/PKGBUILD-AUR_fix

• Upstream isn't interested with problems with heroic-games-launcher or heroic-games-launcher-git so don't report them right away; retry with heroic-games-launcher-bin

You are using an AUR helper see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/heroic-games-launcher#comment-950957 for starting

The invalid array length Allocation failed error that was requiring us to have the nodejs-lts-jod dependency was fixed in nodejs v24.5. Arch's nodejs package is now on v25 so we can swap back to it.

Currently fails to build for me

[1121909:0x7f813c002000]    22779 ms: Scavenge 593.8 (723.3) -> 593.8 (723.3) MB, pooled: 0 MB, 88.05 / 0.00 ms  (average mu = 0.989, current mu = 0.752) allocation failure; 

FATAL ERROR: invalid array length Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
----- Native stack trace -----

• The pkgbuild is hosted at https://github.com/FabioLolix/PKGBUILD-AUR_fix

• Upstream isn't interested with problems with heroic-games-launcher or heroic-games-launcher-git so don't report them right away; retry with heroic-games-launcher-bin

Hi! This package has a problem when you use the option to "Create Steam shortcut". Because you are using a shell script to call electron to execute the app.asar, it will add electron as the executable to the shortcut on Steam.

I have created a package based on yours, with the system electron, that does not have this problem, as I symlink the actual binary from linux-unpacked. I think you could do something similar.

Thanks for reporting!

Hi! Since this commit, it is necessary to add pnpm download-helper-binaries to the build instructions:

build() {
  cd HeroicGamesLauncher
  pnpm install
  pnpm download-helper-binaries
  pnpm dist:linux tar.xz
}

btw my network error reported some days ago seems instead that upstream (the Electron vendor) have deleted that tag

Thanks for the pnpm tip

About the makedepends you can find out with devtools

About the depends that 3 are mandatory for every electron program

Hi, @FabioLolix! As the project is using pnpm on its building instructions, I tried to change the PKGBUILD and it worked. I am not experienced on this and I do not know if any of the packages that I removed from the depends and makedepends would cause any problems, but I supposed that they would be satisfied when I added the command pnpm install, as stated on the building instructions.

Could you tell if what I did make sense? Because it has build just fine!

Here is what I changed:

diff --unified --recursive --text "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (2)/PKGBUILD" "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (3)/PKGBUILD"
--- "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (2)/PKGBUILD"  2023-11-04 12:27:10.000000000 -0300
+++ "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (3)/PKGBUILD"  2024-05-21 23:52:52.238193331 -0300
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 # Maintainer: Fabio 'Lolix' Loli <fabio.loli@disroot.org> -> https://github.com/FabioLolix

 pkgname=heroic-games-launcher-git
-pkgver=2.10.0.r1.gc19bc525d
+pkgver=2.14.1.r24.g969c8ae08
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Native GOG, Epic Games and Amazon games launcher for Linux"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://heroicgameslauncher.com/"
 license=(GPL3)
-depends=(alsa-lib gtk3 nss)
-makedepends=(git yarn node-gyp openssh)
+makedepends=(git pnpm)
 provides=(heroic-games-launcher)
 conflicts=(heroic-games-launcher)
 source=("git+https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher.git")
@@ -21,8 +20,8 @@

 build() {
   cd HeroicGamesLauncher
-  yarn
-  yarn dist:linux tar.xz
+  pnpm install
+  pnpm dist:linux tar.xz
 }

 package() {
diff --unified --recursive --text "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (2)/.SRCINFO" "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (3)/.SRCINFO"
--- "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (2)/.SRCINFO"  2023-11-04 12:27:10.000000000 -0300
+++ "/home/ghost/repos/heroic-games-launcher-git (3)/.SRCINFO"  2024-05-21 23:50:17.105884572 -0300
@@ -6,12 +6,7 @@
    arch = x86_64
    license = GPL3
    makedepends = git
-   makedepends = yarn
-   makedepends = node-gyp
-   makedepends = openssh
-   depends = alsa-lib
-   depends = gtk3
-   depends = nss
+   makedepends = pnpm
    provides = heroic-games-launcher
    conflicts = heroic-games-launcher
    source = git+https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher.git

I have a different failure; network related

error Error: https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases: socket hang up

==> Updated version: heroic-games-launcher-git 2.14.1.r24.g969c8ae08-1
==> Starting build()...
yarn install v1.22.22
info No lockfile found.
[1/5] Validating package.json...
[2/5] Resolving packages...
(node:1816) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
warning @testing-library/jest-dom > css > source-map-resolve@0.6.0: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-resolve#deprecated
error Error: https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases: socket hang up
    at TLSSocket.socketOnEnd (node:_http_client:526:23)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:532:35)
    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1696:12)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

While the stable version give

==> Starting build()...
yarn install v1.22.22
[1/5] Validating package.json...
[2/5] Resolving packages...
warning Resolution field "ts-morph@17.0.1" is incompatible with requested version "ts-morph@^13.0.1"
[3/5] Fetching packages...
(node:1786) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
[4/5] Linking dependencies...
warning " > recharts@2.4.3" has unmet peer dependency "prop-types@^15.6.0".
warning "recharts > react-smooth@2.0.5" has unmet peer dependency "prop-types@^15.6.0".
warning " > @vitejs/plugin-react-swc@3.2.0" has incorrect peer dependency "vite@^4".
warning "electron-builder > app-builder-lib@24.13.3" has unmet peer dependency "electron-builder-squirrel-windows@24.13.3".
[5/5] Building fresh packages...
error /build/heroic-games-launcher/src/HeroicGamesLauncher/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-common-types: Command failed.
Exit code: 126
Command: node attribution.js
Arguments: 
Directory: /build/heroic-games-launcher/src/HeroicGamesLauncher/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-common-types
Output:
/bin/sh: /tmp/yarn--1716305333779-0.3006642665045314/node: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Text file busy
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
warning Error running install script for optional dependency: "/build/heroic-games-launcher/src/HeroicGamesLauncher/node_modules/register-scheme: Command failed.
Exit code: 126
Command: node-gyp rebuild
Arguments: 
Directory: /build/heroic-games-launcher/src/HeroicGamesLauncher/node_modules/register-scheme
Output:
/usr/bin/env: ‘node’: Text file busy"
info This module is OPTIONAL, you can safely ignore this error
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().