Library not loaded: @rpath/libffmpeg.dylib

[andrewhertog]

Bug Description:

Unable to run electron app on Mac M1

dyld[4251]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libffmpeg.dylib
  Referenced from: <4C4C44E1-5555-3144-A119-A11710D5D872> /Users/andrew.denhertog/Documents/Project
s/andrewhertog/codex-theia/node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Fra
mework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework
  Reason: tried: '/Users/andrew.denhertog/Documents/Projects/andrewhertog/codex-theia/node_modules/
electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/li
bffmpeg.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64e' or '
arm64')), '/Users/andrew.denhertog/Documents/Projects/andrewhertog/codex-theia/node_modules/electro
n/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Frameworks/libffmpeg.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/andrew.denhertog/D
ocuments/Projects/andrewhertog/codex-theia/node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Framewo
rks/libffmpeg.dylib' (no such file)
/Users/andrew.denhertog/Documents/Projects/andrewhertog/codex-theia/node_modules/electron/dist/Elec
tron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron exited with signal SIGABRT

Steps to Reproduce:

Any electron build i try to run from theia-ide throws the above issue on my mac book.
It seems like its an issue with the arch type not being picked up correctly.

Additional Information

• Operating System: Darwin Andrews-MacBook-Pro.local 24.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.0.0: Tue Sep 24 23:39:07 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.1.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
• Theia Version: 1.57.104

I've also tried the yo theia-extension and ran into the same issues.
Also removed my yarn cache and theia cli cache several times from ${TMPDIR} in order to force a recompile of ffmpeg with no luck.

[JonasHelming]

Thank you for the report. Just to be sure for the first error: What exactly do you you start and how? The packaged product or do you launch the electron app from the sources? if the second, could you paste all commands used?

[andrewhertog]

The commands Ive been running was yarn && yarn build:dev && yarn download:plugins followed by yarn electron package
This was trying to build the electron app from source.

I was able to build on another machine with a different processor (via github actions macos-13 runner) and it was fine.

[JonasHelming]

We actually switched to NPM 2 months ago. Could you try it with NPM, please? see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/blob/master/doc/Developing.md

Also, could you please report where you got the yarn information? It is pretty likely, that we overlooked some documentations when switching to NPM, so i would like to fix this.