Install fails on freebsd do to missing argon2

[mike-pt]

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: Firefox
• Local OS: FreeBSD
• Remote OS: FreeBSD
• Remote Architecture: amd64
• code-server --version:

Steps to Reproduce

1. "npm install -g code-server"

Expected

should install fine

Actual

npm ERR! 1 warning and 4 errors generated.
npm ERR! gmake: *** [argon2.target.mk:119: Release/obj.target/argon2/src/argon2_node.o] Error 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gmake` failed with exit code: 2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:365:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2/lib/binding/napi-v3/argon2.node" "--module_name=argon2" "--module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2/lib/binding/napi-v3" "--napi_version=8" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=3" "--node_napi_label=napi-v3"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v16.2.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.4.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2/lib/binding/napi-v3/argon2.node --module_name=argon2 --module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2/lib/binding/napi-v3 --napi_version=8 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=3 --node_napi_label=napi-v3' (1)
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/@mapbox/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:89:23)
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:365:28)
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1067:16)
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:301:5)
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! System FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v16.2.0
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v1.0.8
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok

Notes

This happen because argon didn't use to provide FreeBSD prebuild packages, however this is no longer the case, there binary node files now, and this includes FreeBSD:

https://github.com/napi-rs/node-rs/releases

[jsjoeio]

Woah, this looks new. Are you saying we should update the docs to tell users to install argon2 locally before installing code-server?

[jsjoeio]

node-rs now publishes an argon2 package. Might help here: https://github.com/napi-rs/node-rs/tree/main/packages/argon2

[53hornet]

I'm running to this issue as well on 13.0-RELEASE-p6. Is there any additional information I can include to get a fix going? The install continues to fail on

node-pre-gyp ERR! install response status 404 Not Found on https://github.com/ranisalt/node-argon2/releases/download/v0.28.5/argon2-v0.28.5-napi-v3-freebsd-x64-unknown.tar.gz

[jsjoeio]

I'm not sure what 13.0-RELEASE-p6 is.

Can you try using 4.2.0?

[53hornet]

It's the FreeBSD version. This open issue is for failed FreeBSD installations. I am using the latest code-server.

[jsjoeio]

I'm not super familiar with FreeBSD but we use node-argon2 for hashing passwords. It looks like someone opened an issue upstream: ranisalt/node-argon2#320

I wonder if we could make node-argon2 an optional dependency 🤔 But since it's the default for hashing passwords, then we'd probably have to add a check there to see if it's available.

@code-asher any ideas?

[code-asher]

Maybe we can go back to node-rs/argon2 now that we know how to work around the platform issue.

[53hornet]

Is that something I can platform test or help with in any way?

[code-asher]

Testing would be highly appreciated! I think the steps to fix are: 1. Switch to node-rs/argon2. This is actually all that is needed to fix the `npm install -g` case but there is a bit more we need to do to fix our standalone releases hosted on GitHub. 2. Add `--ignore-platforms` to the `yarn install` commands in the `package-linux-cross` and `package-macos-amd64` CI jobs so it installs the binaries for every platform (the core issue is that optional dependencies download for the *host* platform and not the *target* platform so we have to just install all of them as a workaround until that bug is sorted). 3. Optional: it would be nice to then remove the binaries for unrelated platforms. Alternatively we could try submitting a PR to node-argon2 to support building for FreeBSD.

[ranisalt]

Try updating to argon2@0.29.1 which packages prebuilt binaries for FreeBSD.