Action fails with wails 2.3.1 on MacOS due to ditto error

[gmlewis]

When running this action on GitHub with the darwin/universal platform and wails version 2.3.1, the run fails on the ditto step with the following error:

Run wails build --platform darwin/universal -webview2 download -o wailsTest
Wails CLI v2.3.1


# Build Options

Platform(s)        | darwin/universal                                     
Compiler           | /Users/runner/hostedtoolcache/go/1.19.4/x64/bin/go   
Skip Bindings      | false                                                
Build Mode         | production                                           
Frontend Directory | /Users/runner/work/cohort-wails/cohort-wails/frontend
Obfuscated         | false                                                
Skip Frontend      | false                                                
Compress           | false                                                
Package            | true                                                 
Clean Bin Dir      | false                                                
LDFlags            |                                                      
Tags               | []                                                   
Race Detector      | false                                                
Output File        | wailsTest                                            

# Building target: darwin/universal

  • Generating bindings: Done.
  • Installing frontend dependencies: Done.
  • Compiling frontend: Done.
  • Compiling application: Done.
  • Packaging application: Done.
Built '/Users/runner/work/cohort-wails/cohort-wails/build/bin/cohort-wails.app/Contents/MacOS/cohort-wails' in 3m25.443s.

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Run chmod +x build/bin/*/Contents/MacOS/*
  chmod +x build/bin/*/Contents/MacOS/*
  shell: /bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
Run ditto -c -k ./build/bin/wailsTest.app ./build/bin/wailsTest.app.zip
  ditto -c -k ./build/bin/wailsTest.app ./build/bin/wailsTest.app.zip
  shell: /bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
ditto: Cannot get the real path for source './build/bin/wailsTest.app'
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[Snider]

Hiya,

We found a bug in wails for macOS builds with a different name.

https://github.com/dAppServer/wails-build-action/actions/runs/3885309312/jobs/6629024935

You can "fix" this using the same 'build-name' as defined in the wails app settings; linux and windows honour this so its a bug for @leaanthony

macos:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      # Checkout code
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - uses: dAppServer/wails-build-action@v2
        with:
          build-name: cohort-wails
          build-platform: darwin/universal
          wails-build-webview2: "embed"
          wails-version: "v2.3.1"
          go-version: ^1.18
          sign: "false"

[leaanthony]

Interesting! Please open a ticket on the Wails repo 🙏

[Snider]

Interesting! Please open a ticket on the Wails repo 🙏

wailsapp/wails#2290 :) 🙏

[Snider]

Just to update people interested in this @gwynforthewyn is working on the fix atm, once Wails publishes a version with her fix, this issue will be resolved by increasing the wails version.

[Cystemzz]

Any updates on this?

[phuclh]

Any updates on this, I got this error when building macOS

ditto: Can't archive multiple sources
Usage: ditto [ <options> ] src [ ... src ] dst
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[phuclh]

Any updates on this, I got this error when building macOS

ditto: Can't archive multiple sources
Usage: ditto [ <options> ] src [ ... src ] dst
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Looks like the space in file name caused this error, but when I tried to remove the space, then got another error

ditto: Cannot get the real path for source './build/bin/App.app'

[gwynforthewyn]

Huh; I thought I had fixed this long ago. I can try dusting off my recollections of wails : )

[phuclh]

Huh; I thought I had fixed this long ago. I can try dusting off my recollections of wails : )

Is it possible for you to take a look at it one more time?

[txbrown]

Any updates on this, I got this error when building macOS

ditto: Can't archive multiple sources
Usage: ditto [ <options> ] src [ ... src ] dst
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Just bumping this issue as I am also facing this issue at the moment.

[txbrown]

It seems this issue happens whenever the app name has a space. My app is named "MIDI Scout" and renaming to "MIDIScout" fixed the issue.

[pmabres]

I would recommend to just copy this action and include it into your own repo and apply some fixes yourself.
If you are working with a monorepo for example, you'll see that this fails when you have a custom path for your app working directory:

    - name: Build .app zip file
      if: runner.os == 'macOS'
      working-directory: ${{ inputs.app-working-directory }}
      shell: bash
      run: |
        ditto -c -k ${{ inputs.app-working-directory }}/build/bin/${{inputs.build-name}}.app ${{ inputs.app-working-directory }}/build/bin/${{inputs.build-name}}.app.zip

This is due to the fact that working-directory: ${{ inputs.app-working-directory }} is being used whilst also ditto tries to compress the file using app-working-directory as well.

This issue is seen across many different places:
name: Building Installer
name: Notarising Installer and zip

and also the last few release steps are missing that as well:

# Upload build assets
    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
      if: inputs.package == 'true'
      with:
        name: Wails Build ${{runner.os}} ${{inputs.build-name}}
        path: |
          */bin/
          *\bin\*
    - name: Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      if: inputs.package == 'true' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
      with:
        files: |
          */bin/*

should have ${{ inputs.app-working-directory }} embedded in the path filter of each action

[jordanamr]

Still unsolved.