Deltachat-desktop: App doesn't start on Arch

[Jikstra]

App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot find module './tsc-dist/main'
    at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:584:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/usr/lib/electron4/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:43:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:510:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:640:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/DeltaChat/electron_app/index.js:1:156)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/DeltaChat/electron_app/index.js:3:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:693:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:704:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:602:32)
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module './tsc-dist/main'
    at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:584:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/usr/lib/electron4/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:43:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:510:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:640:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/DeltaChat/electron_app/index.js:1:156)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/DeltaChat/electron_app/index.js:3:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:693:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:704:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:602:32)

[Simon-Laux]

Strange.. Did you run npm run build? Or do we have to specify the tsc-dist folder somewhere to be included?

[Jikstra]

Recloned everything, now it works again. But it's weird as I did git reset --hard HEAD and stuff.. Also my aur package doesn't start with the same error and it's a clean build.

[Simon-Laux]

How do we proceed now? close this issue?

[Jikstra]

Currently rebuilding the aur package and lets see... I have a node v10 version set with nvm, probably that made problems?

[Simon-Laux]

I have a node v10 version set with nvm, probably that made problems

unlikely that this forget to run the build command or excluded the directory

[Jikstra]

Nope still the same problem with a aur built. You're using arch too, can try out if it still builds a working version for you?

[Simon-Laux]

line 46 (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=deltachat-desktop-git#n46)
tsc-dist is missing and theoretically you can remove src
maybe also copy html-dist (parcel pr will use that folder) (but only do that if coping doesn't fail if the folder doesn't exist)

[Simon-Laux]

in theory you only need the tsc-dist/main and tsc-dist/shared but as we might not use bundlers as much for the renderer in the future so I will not advocate for excluding it right ow.

[Jikstra]

Fixed it on AUR