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Cannot be installed in AIX 7.1

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nodejs, typescript
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Review package.json and lib/vscode/package.json first, then inspect the linked node-argon2 and policy-watcher issues and pull requests. Reproduce the global npm install on AIX 7.1 with Node 20.18.0; done means code-server installs successfully without the argon2 or policy-watcher failures.

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Description

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Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Chrome 129.0.6668.71, 64bits
  • Local OS: Windows 10
  • Remote OS: AIX 7.1
  • Remote Architecture: ppc64
  • code-server --version:
Steps to Reproduce
  1. Login to AIX 7.1
  2. Compile node 20.18.0 source code and install it
  3. Install code-server with npm install --global --verbose code-server
Expected

Can be installed successfully

Actual
npm error   g++-11 -shared -Wl,-bimport:/home/showcase/local/include/node/node.exp -pthread -Wl,-bbigtoc -maix64 -Wl,-blibpath:/usr/lib:/lib:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.3.0.0/11/pthread/ppc64:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.2.0.0/11/pthread/ppc64:/opt/freeware/lib/pthread/ppc64 -Wl,--gc-sections  -o Release/obj.target/argon2.node Release/obj.target/argon2/argon2_node.o Release/obj.target/argon2.a
npm error gmake: Leaving directory '/home/showcase/local/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/argon2/build'
npm error ld: 0706-012 The -- flag is not recognized.
npm error ld: 0706-012 The -g flag is not recognized.
npm error ld: 0706-012 The -c flag is not recognized.
npm error ld: 0706-012 The -- flag is not recognized.
npm error collect2: error: ld returned 255 exit status
npm error gmake: *** [argon2.target.mk:153: Release/obj.target/argon2.node] Error 1
npm verbose cwd /home/sidev1
npm verbose os AIX 7.1
npm verbose node v20.18.0
npm verbose npm  v10.8.2
npm verbose exit 1
npm verbose code 1
Logs

As previous posted

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Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

I did not test native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

There are two known issues and related PRs are being working on:

ranisalt/node-argon2 and PR

microsoft/vscode-policy-watcher and PR

Upgrade of dependencies argon2(in package.json) and @vscode/policy-watcher(in lib/vscode/package.json) might solve this issue.

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