Developer Guide: Unable to build aws-cdk-lib locally on Windows 10 x64

[hot9cups]

Describe the issue

I'm following the developer guide, and am trying to build aws-cdk-lib locally.
When I run the command npx lerna run build --scope=aws-cdk-lib to do that, I receive the following error:

PS C:\Users\WIN 10\Desktop\github things\aws-cdk> npx lerna run build --scope=aws-cdk-lib
lerna notice cli v7.0.2
lerna notice filter including "aws-cdk-lib"
lerna info filter [ 'aws-cdk-lib' ]        

   ×    1/2 dependent project tasks failed (see below)
   √    1/2 dependent project tasks succeeded [1 read from cache]

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> @aws-cdk/node-bundle:build

yarn run v1.22.19
$ projen build
\"" was unexpected at this time.
👾 unable to evaluate environment variable PATH=$(npx -c "node -e \"console.log(process.env.PATH)\""): unknown error
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

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 >  Lerna (powered by Nx)   Ran target build for project aws-cdk-lib and 10 task(s) they depend on (2s)

    ×    1/2 failed
    √    1/2 succeeded [1 read from cache]

I'm trying to do this on Windows 10 x64. This is the very first step in the guide so I'm not quite sure what I could have done wrong leading upto this.

Links

https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#setup

[hot9cups]

In an attempt to mitigate the problem, I tried making use of Dev-containers that's mentioned in the developer guide, here, just to remove any dependencies on my local machine that might be causing issues.

However opening the repo in dev-container throws an error during the container build too:

error An unexpected error occurred: "EPERM: operation not permitted, chmod '/workspaces/aws-cdk/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/node_modules/.bin/cdk-build'".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/workspaces/aws-cdk/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
[1155390 ms] postCreateCommand failed with exit code 1. Skipping any further user-provided commands.

This is when I'm already running VSCode with admin privileges.

[pahud]

If you use Windows for development environment, we recommend using Gidpod or Amazon CodeCatalyst DevEnv as mentioned in the contributing guide:

Windows, as a development environment, has known performance and compatibility issues. To help in this case, consider using Gitpod or Amazon CodeCatalyst DevEnv instead.

https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

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[hot9cups]

Hi @pahud

Given the shortcomings of Windows and lack of local-development options available as highlighted above, I decided to continue doing this on my M1 Macbook Pro.

Now, when I run the command npx lerna run build --scope=aws-cdk-lib, here's the error I get:

➜  aws-cdk git:(main) npx lerna run build --scope=aws-cdk-lib 
lerna notice cli v7.1.5
lerna notice filter including "aws-cdk-lib"
lerna info filter [ 'aws-cdk-lib' ]

   ✔    11/11 dependent project tasks succeeded [0 read from cache]

   Hint: you can run the command with --verbose to see the full dependent project outputs

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> aws-cdk-lib:build

yarn run v1.22.19
$ cdk-build
  ...ces/lib/aws-custom-resource/runtime/aws-sdk-v3-handler.bundled.js  24.2kb
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: fixtures/test1/external-link.txt: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: fixtures/symlinks/external-dir-link: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: fixtures/symlinks/external-link.txt: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Error: 'ts-node -P tsconfig.dev.json region-info/build-tools/generate-static-data.ts && (cp -f $(node -p '"'"'require.resolve("aws-sdk/apis/metadata.json")') custom-resources/lib/aws-custom-resource/sdk-api-metadata.json && rm -rf custom-resources/test/aws-custom-resource/cdk.out) && esbuild --bundle custom-resources/lib/aws-custom-resource/runtime/aws-sdk-v3-handler.ts --target=node18 --platform=node --external:'@aws-sdk/*' --outfile=custom-resources/lib/aws-custom-resource/runtime/aws-sdk-v3-handler.bundled.js && (rm -rf core/test/fs/fixtures && cd core/test/fs && tar -xzf fixtures.tar.gz) && (rm -rf assets/test/fs/fixtures && cd assets/test/fs && tar -xzvf fixtures.tar.gz) && ./scripts/airlift-custom-resource-handlers.sh' exited with error code 2
Build failed.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

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 >  Lerna (powered by Nx)   Ran target build for project aws-cdk-lib and 11 task(s) they depend on (1m)
 
    ✖    1/12 failed
    ✔    11/12 succeeded [0 read from cache]

Can you help me understand what's wrong?
All I've done is checkout the package from github, open it in dev-containers through vs-code, and run the build command, and it seems to fail out-of-the-box unfortunately.

[hot9cups]

Also this issue is closed, could we re-open?

[frattallone]

I'm facing the same issue