Code-server: Symbol not found in alpine

[yujinqiu]

Hi there,
code-server2.1698-vsc1.41.1-alpine-x86_64 unable to run in Alpine Linux 3.9 with the following error

~ # ./code-server -h
Error relocating ./code-server: _ZNSt7__cxx1119basic_ostringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEC1Ev: symbol not found
Error relocating ./code-server: _ZNSt19_Sp_make_shared_tag5_S_eqERKSt9type_info: symbol not found
Error relocating ./code-server: _ZNSt7__cxx1118basic_stringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEC1Ev: symbol not found

code-server2.1692-vsc1.39.2-alpine-x86_64 works well.

~ # code-server --version
info  2.1692-vsc1.39.2
info  e14362f3224c101585a26bf7ee5fa6e3bf425046
info  x64

[kylecarbs]

Weird weird. Any ideas @code-asher ?

[code-asher]

We were using Drone for that release; we must have broken the Alpine step in the process. I'm unsure what the best way to fix it is since we no longer have Alpine builds; the current recommendation is to install libc-dev so maybe we should just remove the broken Alpine builds from that release?

[mjgallag]

I can’t get libc-dev to work in alpine for 3.0.0. I get similar errors. If I take the node binary from official node alpine image it works just fine.

[nhooyr]

Looks like there's been confusion regarding libc-dev. I don't think that installs glibc or would help with this issue. I think that was my bad. I think the best approach here is to solve #1396 instead of adding an alpine release but whatever you think is best @code-asher

[code-asher]

We'd need an Alpine container on CI either way, I think? In order to build the native Node modules. I suppose that means we'd end up with an Alpine release during deploy anyway.

[nhooyr]

We wouldn't include the native node modules, they'd be built by node when fetched.

[code-asher]

Oh right, of course. Yeah that sounds good to me.

[nhooyr]

Fixed, please use the npm package to install on alpine. The erroneous alpine entry in the FAQ has been removed.

See https://github.com/cdr/code-server#npm