The yarn build for arm64 does not produce a working application.

[FoundOne]

The yarn build for arm64 does not produce a working application.

[black-puppydog]

Yeahhh... that module should really not be there anymore. See #1383. I know that this statement isn't super helpful in this situation. :P
But this seems to be an issue with choosing the right compile options. I just found the error here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58244095/gcc-7-error-unrecognized-command-line-option-m64

But I really don't understand how the build system for electron-spellchecker works, and because the whole module is deprecated, I really don't want to be learning that, just to kick it out later. Sorry...

[black-puppydog]

@FoundOne to clarify:

• does the application open a window at all?
• if so, does it show anything? Or does it look like this?
  

[black-puppydog]

Also, I haven't run anything on the pinebook yet, but on my pinephone the indexing can feel like forever, but it's actually just really, really slow. 😆

[FoundOne]

Yes, it opens a window. It looks almost like this. I don't have the friends list yet. I joined a couple of rooms and they don't appear in the yarn build. I'm still quite hesitant to join some of the pubs. Also I don't have the text "indexing database" and the progress bar. There is only the loading animation at that place.
I'm just looking for portable package.

[black-puppydog]

Do you have pre-existing ssb data or is this a "fresh" identity?
If it's the latter, and you haven't joined a room or pub, then it should be empty, since your client hasn't connected to anyone else yet.
Before you join a pub (that might indeed overwhelm the poor thing) consider joining a room instead. I explained a bit about rooms & pubs here today:

https://ssb.muchmuch.coffee/%25fnEO0XOWpa%2FhNQ0nkWd%2BXnGpqaqoxXGKHFGljpPX19g%3D.sha256

[FoundOne]

It's a quite new identity. There is not much in my timeline. It was mostly stumbling to learn how things work (I learned I can't disconnect from the rooms/pubs) and I set up my profile. The npm build works fine. I guess I have to deal with the tarball 😞 IMO AppImages are more practical, if there is no official (or AUR) package.

[black-puppydog]

I've honestly not used yarn much, and not at all in patchwork... Is it important for your environment that you use yarn?

[FoundOne]

Not really. My main issue is that I can't make an AppImage. If someone tell me how to do it with npm, I'd be very happy. Anyway, I see the advantages of yarn over npm. It does the things in parallel, it uses a cache to build and looks better imo, but It does not build a working app unfortunately.

[black-puppydog]

ah, for me npm run dist usually does the trick.
But indeed, I haven't tried that on arm yet. :P

[FoundOne]

Unfortunately it does not work. It ends with:

⨯ cannot execute  cause=exit status 1
                    out=
    > @felixrieseberg/[email protected] install /home/dwolf/patchwork_npm/node_modules/@felixrieseberg/spellchecker
    > node-gyp rebuild
    
    make: влизане в директория „/home/dwolf/patchwork_npm/node_modules/@felixrieseberg/spellchecker/build“
      CXX(target) Release/obj.target/hunspell/vendor/hunspell/src/base/md5.o
    make: излизане от директория „/home/dwolf/patchwork_npm/node_modules/@felixrieseberg/spellchecker/build“
    
                    errorOut=g++: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-m64’
    make: *** [hunspell.target.mk:128: Release/obj.target/hunspell/vendor/hunspell/src/base/md5.o] Грешка 1
    gyp ERR! build error 
    gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
    gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
    gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:379:20)
    gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:12)
    gyp ERR! System Linux 5.7.19-1-MANJARO-ARM
    gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
    gyp ERR! cwd /home/dwolf/patchwork_npm/node_modules/@felixrieseberg/spellchecker
    gyp ERR! node -v v15.6.0
    gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v7.1.2
    gyp ERR! not ok 
    npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
    npm ERR! errno 1
    npm ERR! @felixrieseberg/[email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
    npm ERR! Exit status 1
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Failed at the @felixrieseberg/[email protected] install script.
    npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
    
    npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /home/dwolf/.npm/_logs/2021-01-25T21_58_03_863Z-debug.log
    
                    command=/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js rebuild @felixrieseberg/[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
                    workingDir=
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] dist: `electron-builder -c.snap.publish=github`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] dist script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/dwolf/.npm/_logs/2021-01-25T21_58_04_023Z-debug.log

And then, I can't run the npm start command successfully until I run npm install again. It just gives me a blank window. By what I see, it gives a parameter which does not exist in gcc-aarch64 (-m64).