IOError: could not spawn 7z x electron-v2.0.5-win32-x64.zip -oatom: no such file or directory (ENOENT)

[anthonyagudelox3]

I receive the following error when trying to build Blink.jl on Julia 1.0.3.1 on Windows 10 OS. Do you know what is causing this?

Building Blink ────→ C:\Users\Thor\.juliapro\JuliaPro_v1.0.3.1\packages\Blink\6QR5U\deps\build.log
┌ Error: Error building Blink:
│ ERROR: LoadError: IOError: could not spawn 7z x electron-v2.0.5-win32-x64.zip -oatom: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
│ Stacktrace:
│ [1] _jl_spawn(::String, ::Array{String,1}, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:367
│ [2] (::getfield(Base, Symbol("##493#494")){Cmd})(::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:509
│ [3] setup_stdio(::getfield(Base, Symbol("##493#494")){Cmd}, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:490
│ [4] #_spawn#492(::Nothing, ::Function, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:508
│ [5] _spawn at .\process.jl:504 [inlined]
│ [6] #run#503(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at .\process.jl:662
│ [7] run at .\process.jl:661 [inlined]
│ [8] (::getfield(Main.BuildBlink, Symbol("##1#2")))() at C:\Users\Thor.juliapro\JuliaPro_v1.0.3.1\packages\Blink\6QR5U\src\AtomShell\install.jl:48
│ [9] cd(::getfield(Main.BuildBlink, Symbol("##1#2")), ::String) at .\file.jl:85
│ [10] install() at C:\Users\Thor.juliapro\JuliaPro_v1.0.3.1\packages\Blink\6QR5U\src\AtomShell\install.jl:27
│ [11] top-level scope at C:\Users\Thor.juliapro\JuliaPro_v1.0.3.1\packages\Blink\6QR5U\deps\build.jl:14
│ [12] include at .\boot.jl:317 [inlined]
│ [13] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at .\loading.jl:1044
│ [14] include(::Module, ::String) at .\sysimg.jl:29
│ [15] include(::String) at .\client.jl:392
│ [16] top-level scope at none:0
│ in expression starting at C:\Users\Thor.juliapro\JuliaPro_v1.0.3.1\packages\Blink\6QR5U\deps\build.jl:13
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\Users\julia\AppData\Local\Julia-1.0.3\share\julia\stdlib\v1.0\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:1136

[anthonyagudelox3]

@gtollefson

[linearlyIndependent]

Having a similar error with Linux on my project's GitLab pipeline.

Julia 1.1, Blink 0.10.1

Building Blink ───────→ "~/.julia/packages/Blink/1QOOi/deps/build.log"

┌ Error: Error building "Blink": 
│   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
│                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
│ 
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100  386k  100  386k    0     0  1412k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1416k
│   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
│                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
│ 
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100   618    0   618    0     0   2624      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2618
│ 
 99 71.6M   99 71.4M    0     0  65.0M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 65.0M
100 71.6M  100 71.6M    0     0  65.2M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  211M
│ ERROR: LoadError: IOError: could not spawn "unzip -q electron-v4.0.4-linux-x64.zip -d atom": no such file or directory (ENOENT)
│ Stacktrace:
│  [1] _spawn_primitive(::String, ::Cmd, ::Array{Any,1}) at ./process.jl:400
│  [2] setup_stdios(::getfield(Base, Symbol("##505#506")){Cmd}, ::Array{Any,1}) at ./process.jl:413
│  [3] _spawn at ./process.jl:412 [inlined]
│  [4] #run#515(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at ./process.jl:725
│  [5] run at ./process.jl:724 [inlined]
│  [6] (::getfield(Main.BuildBlink, Symbol("##1#4")))() at /root/.julia/packages/Blink/1QOOi/src/AtomShell/install.jl:79
│  [7] cd(::getfield(Main.BuildBlink, Symbol("##1#4")), ::String) at ./file.jl:96
│  [8] install() at /root/.julia/packages/Blink/1QOOi/src/AtomShell/install.jl:27
│  [9] top-level scope at /root/.julia/packages/Blink/1QOOi/deps/build.jl:14
│  [10] include at ./boot.jl:326 [inlined]
│  [11] include_relative(::Module, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1038
│  [12] include(::Module, ::String) at ./sysimg.jl:29
│  [13] include(::String) at ./client.jl:403
│  [14] top-level scope at none:0
│ in expression starting at /root/.julia/packages/Blink/1QOOi/deps/build.jl:13
└ @ Pkg.Operations /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.1/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1075

[jsr38]

The error is somewhat unclear. What it can't find is the 7z binary on OP's system or unzip binary on the subsequent poster's system.

[twavv]

It looks like we require 7z on Windows and unzip on Linux. You'll need to install the appropriate one for your system to be able to install Electron (in the case of Linux, apt get install -y unzip or similar should work).

A note for CI: make sure you're running with xvfb-run ... (which will also require installation) because CI environments don't have a window environment which will cause Electron to fail.

[NHDaly]

There was a whole conversation about this in this PR:
#177

We didn't want to force users to install 7z, and Julia comes with 7z bundled on windows, so if you have Julia in your PATH, we can find its 7z as well.

... With the benefit of hindsight, I think we could use Julia's dirname(Base.julia_cmd().exec[1]) to get the Julia directory rather than that weird PATH stuff we do in #177, which would fix this issue for good. Would love a PR there from any Windows users who could test this!!! 😊❤️

I think the change would be to replace this line:

Blink.jl/src/AtomShell/install.jl

Line 67 in 2322766

zipper = joinpath(ENV["LOCALAPPDATA"], juliafolders[i], "bin", "7z.exe")

with this:

 zipper = joinpath(dirname(Base.julia_cmd().exec[1]), "7z.exe") 

Any windows users out there want to make this change and give it a whirl?

[NHDaly]

In the meantime, I've added a note to the README about this dependency in 89e33de

[twavv]

I think(?) this should be fixed for most installations by #229

@NHDaly Can we close this issue? :^)

[NHDaly]

LGTM thanks @travigd !