Type generation fails

[yashranjan1]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but, when I init the type generation fails, im not sure why

ags init
error: type generation failed, try running
/usr/bin/npx -y @ts-for-gir/cli@4.0.0-beta.15 generate * --ignoreVersionConflicts --outdir /home/yash/.config/ags/@girs -g /usr/local/share/gir-1.0 -g /usr/share/gir-1.0 -g /usr/share/*/gir-1.0 -g gir-1.0

When I try the recommended command it gives me the following error

/usr/bin/npx -y @ts-for-gir/cli@4.0.0-beta.15 generate * --ignoreVersionConflicts --outdir /home/yash/.config/ags/@girs -g /usr/local/share/gir-1.0 -g /usr/share/gir-1.0 -g /usr/share/*/gir-1.0 -g gir-1.0
Adding generics...
ts-for-gir generate [modules..]

Generates Typescript type definition .d.ts files from GIR for GJS

Options:
      --version                 Show version number                    [boolean]
      --help                    Show help                              [boolean]
      --modules                 GIR modules to load, e.g. 'Gio-2.0'. Accepts mul
                                tiple modules           [array] [default: ["*"]]
  -g, --girDirectories          GIR directories
  [array] [default: ["/usr/local/share/gir-1.0","/usr/share/gir-1.0","/usr/share
  /*/gir-1.0","/usr/share/gnome-shell","/usr/share/gnome-shell/gir-1.0","/usr/li
        b64/mutter-*","/usr/lib/mutter-*","/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mutter-*"]]
      --root                    Root directory of your project
                                        [string] [default: "/home/yash/.config"]
  -o, --outdir                  Directory to output to
                                                  [string] [default: "./@types"]
  -i, --ignore                  Modules that should be ignored
                                                           [array] [default: []]
  -v, --verbose                 Switch on/off the verbose mode
                                                       [string] [default: false]
      --ignoreVersionConflicts  Skip prompts for library version selection when
                                multiple versions are detected
                                                       [string] [default: false]
  -p, --print                   Print the output to console and create no files
                                                       [string] [default: false]
      --configName              Specify a custom name for the configuration file
                                          [string] [default: ".ts-for-girrc.js"]
  -d, --noNamespace             Do not export all symbols for each module as a n
                                amespace               [string] [default: false]
  -n, --noComments              Do not generate documentation comments
                                                       [string] [default: false]
      --promisify               Generate promisified functions for async/finish
                                calls                   [string] [default: true]
      --npmScope                Scope of the generated NPM packages
                                                     [string] [default: "@girs"]
      --workspace               Uses the workspace protocol for the generated pa
                                ckages which can be used with package managers l
                                ike Yarn and PNPM      [string] [default: false]
      --onlyVersionPrefix       Only use the version prefix for the ambient modu
                                le exports. This is useful if, for whatever reas
                                on, you want to use different library versions o
                                f the same library in your project.
                                                       [string] [default: false]
      --noPrettyPrint           Do not prettify the generated types
                                                       [string] [default: false]
      --noAdvancedVariants      Disable GLib.Variant class with string parsing
                                                        [string] [default: true]
      --package                 Generate the typescript types with package.json
                                support                [string] [default: false]

Examples:
  ts-for-gir generate                       Run 'ts-for-gir generate' in your gj
                                            s project to generate typings for yo
                                            ur project, pass the gir modules you
                                             need for your project
  ts-for-gir generate Gtk*                  You can also use wild cards
  ts-for-gir generate '*'                   If you want to parse all of your loc
                                            ally installed gir modules run
  ts-for-gir generate --configName='.ts-fo  Use a special config file
  r-gir.gtk4.rc.js
  ts-for-gir generate --ignore=Gtk-4.0 xra  Generate .d.ts. files but not for Gt
  ndr-1.3                                   k-4.0 and xrandr-1.3

Error: Could not generify Gtk 4.0
    at file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/9947fdcb15df8564/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/generics/generify.js:17:19
    at generify (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/9947fdcb15df8564/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/generics/generify.js:25:5)
    at DependencyManager.transform (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/9947fdcb15df8564/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/gir/registry.js:105:9)
    at GenerationHandler.start (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/9947fdcb15df8564/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/cli/lib/generation-handler.js:35:18)
    at async Object.handler (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/9947fdcb15df8564/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/cli/lib/commands/generate.js:34:5)

Im not really sure whats going here

[Aylur]

This usually means you don't have the gtk4 gir file installed.
What distro are you on?

[yashranjan1]

arch

[rogtino]

I'm currently using nixos.Same error happened here:

󰯉 ags types
error: type generation failed, try running
/nix/store/jz54v1m0ldqivx5i45q8i05pz5clf842-nodejs-20.18.0/bin/npx -y @ts-for-gir/cli@4.0.0-beta.15 generate * --ignoreVersionConflicts --outdir /home/gus/.config/ags/@girs -g /usr/local/share/gir-1.0 -g /usr/share/gir-1.0 -g /usr/share/*/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/slm7mb2626vbl9qwq9cgp1ix6szcyqvw-gtk+3-3.24.43-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/59knjxjaqd279yp8z8miw2kis2szql9n-at-spi2-core-2.54.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/1hhi03gg5jdb2fa5gb9ncklziczax741-glib-2.82.1-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/wmbg435clgdlqn4rrn8h5f4jhmhbk24f-gdk-pixbuf-2.42.12-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/h42324qxqnmmmpjg3skvvmllr1l75cma-gsettings-desktop-schemas-47.1/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/774vgpw939f69xb47f2wz31j6di094bp-pango-1.54.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/sv5fvv7pimim1z48yyy4fs0amr93qg4q-harfbuzz-9.0.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/qrwgj7jhyazhs1kgr61y9k48v4dljxjb-librsvg-2.58.3-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/9qrx21qdxh9vlnmg4hzsh3saiig54q3q-gobject-introspection-wrapped-1.82.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/qrwgj7jhyazhs1kgr61y9k48v4dljxjb-librsvg-2.58.3-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/1hhi03gg5jdb2fa5gb9ncklziczax741-glib-2.82.1-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/wmbg435clgdlqn4rrn8h5f4jhmhbk24f-gdk-pixbuf-2.42.12-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/slm7mb2626vbl9qwq9cgp1ix6szcyqvw-gtk+3-3.24.43-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/59knjxjaqd279yp8z8miw2kis2szql9n-at-spi2-core-2.54.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/h42324qxqnmmmpjg3skvvmllr1l75cma-gsettings-desktop-schemas-47.1/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/774vgpw939f69xb47f2wz31j6di094bp-pango-1.54.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/sv5fvv7pimim1z48yyy4fs0amr93qg4q-harfbuzz-9.0.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/4x4lqw85ljkg0x3qx0fxiq49fcjb4l5l-gobject-introspection-1.82.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/yw3rnyycd5avw59pczzlainzw954x6sr-astal-0.1.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/3smm6wfkc7vkc87lykpgpqq431sdq5sh-astal-3.0.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/7mjw24p0xfm45vcm04dxlmfydg00c3jw-gtk-layer-shell-0.9.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/3m08jxm3d356kksnb149p13wgdqnq23r-astal-4.0.0-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/k887w7d4qwd9n1lmnk4yblwd11mv5vak-gtk4-4.16.3-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/cnsg6r87wm9rc3v2c757kd0c96adb358-graphene-1.10.8-dev/share/gir-1.0 -g /nix/store/z5yzpa7h7iq4712akdvb14cjl3rs5sqi-gtk4-layer-shell-1.0.4-dev/share/gir-1.0

[pomeluce]

This usually means you don't have the gtk4 gir file installed. What distro are you on?

I also encountered this problem. I am also using archlinux and have installed gtk4 dependencies. Is there any solution?

[iCultureBud]

I have the exact same error after installing aylurs-gtk-shell-git on Arch and running ags init.

Edit: ags run seems to work.

[yashranjan1]

Edit: ags run seems to work.

Ags run works because type generation is not essential for the widgets to work. Types are useful for LSP, makes writing your config a lot easier to debug.

[OBLIXi-ON]

The recommend command isn't working for me either. It's showing zsh: no matches found: /usr/share/*/gir-1.0. ags run doesn't work either.

Edit: surrounding it like "/usr/share/*/gir-1.0" shows the same error mentioned at the top.

[Loneattic]

Use only one "-g" path where the girs modules are located (most likely it's /usr/share/gir-1.0/).
* without quotes also generates errors. Try "*" or just remove it, it's still the default option.

npx -y @ts-for-gir/cli generate --ignoreVersionConflicts --outdir <YOUR-@girs-PATH> -g /usr/share/gir-1.0/

[yashranjan1]

npx -y @ts-for-gir/cli generate --ignoreVersionConflicts --outdir YOUR-@girs-PATH -g /usr/share/gir-1.0/

Tried this and got another error

Error: Failed to import Vulkan in GstVulkan, not installed or accessible.
    at GirModule.assertInstalledImport (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/gir-module.js:279:19)
    at IntrospectedRecord.isSimpleType (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/gir/class.js:821:45)
    at file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/gir/class.js:851:54
    at Array.every (<anonymous>)
    at IntrospectedRecord.isSimple (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/gir/class.js:851:38)
    at file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/validators/class.js:111:84
    at Array.filter (<anonymous>)
    at removeComplexFields (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/validators/class.js:98:31)
    at chainVisitors (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/validators/class.js:208:23)
    at ClassVisitor.visitClass (file:///home/yash/.npm/_npx/4001ac8ae3bf4948/node_modules/@ts-for-gir/lib/lib/validators/class.js:213:28)

Either way i think this is something ags needs to address. If this was a one off thing that only i faced it would make sense to find my own fix, but the fact that so many people are facing this probably means that installing ags does not guarantee you have everything you need to develop with it installed and ready to use. Hope this can be addressed soon!

[RewardedIvan]

I had the same issue as well, but after a bit of thinking I figured this might have something to do with astal and then I realized i never installed astal or anything and just assumed it came with ags, but after running

yay -S libastal-io-git libastal-git
ags types

fixed it, but this should probably be in the ags documentation

[The-Lost-Light]

libastal-io-git libastal-git is required in ags in AUR(libastal-meta)
I install both two but still have this problem

[vnva]

I had same issue (ArchLinux)

List command prints me

> npx @ts-for-gir/cli list 

Dependencies not found:
- cairo-1.0
- freetype2-2.0
- xlib-2.0
- xft-2.0
- fontconfig-2.0
- libxml2-2.0
- Vulkan-1.0
- DBus-1.0

But most of these dependencies are installed in the system.

> pacman -Q cairo freetype2 fontconfig libxml2 vulkan-radeon dbus

cairo 1.18.2-2
freetype2 2.13.3-1
fontconfig 2:2.15.0-2
libxml2 2.13.5-1
vulkan-radeon 1:24.2.7-1
dbus 1.14.10-2

[kotontrion]

@vnva thanks, that was really helpful. Those files are provided by the gobject-introspection package. I thought gjs depends on it so it should be installed, but its only a make dependency. So this should be added as a dependency to AGS, I will do so later.

[vnva]

@kotontrion thanks, yes, that was the problem, after installing this package I was able to initialize the project using ags init.