Cannot deploy if the functions project has a dependency (even unused) that requires build hooks

[alextekartik]

Related issues

This is related to dart compile failing in such scenario. Maybe this issue should belong to the firebase tools project, sorry if that is indeed the case.
Releated issues:

• [dartdev] dart compile exe checks for build hooks for scripts outside bin dart-lang/sdk#62593

Version info

Dart SDK: dart 3.12
firebase_functions: 0.6.0
firebase cli: 15.19

Test case

Simply add a dependency (even as a transitive dependency) that requires build_hooks (such as sqlite3)

Steps to reproduce

• Generate a project using firebase init functions
• Add sqlite3 as a dependency
• Call firebase deploy: firebase deploy --only functions

Expected behavior

It should deploy

Actual behavior

i  functions: compiling Dart to linux-x64 executable...

Error: Dart compilation failed with exit code 255. Make sure your Dart project compiles successfully with: dart compile exe bin/server.dart --target-os=linux --target-arch=x64

And indeed:

$ dart compile exe bin/server.dart --target-os=linux --target-arch=x64
'dart compile' does not support build hooks, use 'dart build' instead.
Packages with build hooks: sqlite3.

Were you able to successfully deploy your functions?

No and I could not find any workaround as in my case sqlite3 is added by a transitive dependency...
It seems that the check for hook is only made for binaries in the bin folder but unfortunately: Firebase Functions for Dart expects your main function in bin/server.dart.

[demolaf]

Hi @alextekartik , thanks for raising this.

I see you've linked an issue from the firebase-tools, i'll raise this with the team and will keep this issue up to date.

[alextekartik]

@demolaf Yes sorry for the cross posting. I did that after I analyse code in both repo and notice that the compilation is triggered by the firebase tools. As an alternative, maybe dart build should be called instead of dart compile

[demolaf]

@alextekartik no problem at all, we're currently looking into this.

[demolaf]

@alextekartik you can find updates on this in this issue #203.

There's a dependency on the dart-lang/native (native_toolchain_c) and dart-lang/sdk repos that need to be resolved for this to move forward.

I'll keep this issue up to date.