Building issues (Mac ARM)

[neoighodaro]

What were you trying to do?

Build a new app for arm on a Mac M2 Max.

What happened?

Hi, I am having a few issues building for a Mac arm (have not tried other platforms yet).

Disclaimer: its possible I missed something but I have looked through the documentation many times including Electons documentation.

I have set the environment variables required:

NATIVEPHP_APPLE_ID=xxx
NATIVEPHP_APPLE_ID_PASS=xxx
NATIVEPHP_APPLE_TEAM_ID=xxx

NATIVEPHP_APP_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
NATIVEPHP_APP_VERSION="0.0.1"
NATIVEPHP_APP_ID=
NATIVEPHP_DEEPLINK_SCHEME=
NATIVEPHP_APP_AUTHOR=
NATIVEPHP_UPDATER_ENABLED=false
NATIVEPHP_UPDATER_PROVIDER=github

When i try to build, first I get this output

===================================================================
                    Building for mac
===================================================================

Updater config {
  provider: 'github',
  repo: null,
  owner: null,
  vPrefixedTagName: true,
  private: false,
  channel: 'latest',
  releaseType: 'draft'
}

  • loaded configuration  file=...
 // ....
  • skipped macOS notarization  reason=`notarize` options were unable to be generated
aftersign hook triggered, start to notarize app.
skipping notarizing, NATIVEPHP_APPLE_ID, NATIVEPHP_APPLE_ID_PASS and NATIVEPHP_APPLE_TEAM_ID env variables must be set.
// ...

A few things are strange here,

1. I have the updater disabled, yet it still tries to pull the values from the default updater (more on this later)
2. It is skipping the notarization process even though i have all the right environment variables set.

When i try to remove the default updater from github to null, the build process fails entirely (I can probably send a PR for that if needed, but it's not so important for this issue)

 Command successful: php artisan optimize

  Pre-process commands completed.


  Updating Electron dependencies...


   InvalidArgumentException

  NativePHP updater provider [] is not defined.

For the second issue, I get around this by exporting the variables in my terminal session and this was the only way I got it to start the notarizing process (which failed still but that's a different issue also.

How to reproduce the bug

set these NATIVEPHP_APPLE_ID, NATIVEPHP_APPLE_ID_PASS and NATIVEPHP_APPLE_TEAM_ID and run a build.

Package Versions

{
    "installed": [
        {
            "name": "nativephp/electron",
            "direct-dependency": true,
            "homepage": "https://github.com/nativephp/electron",
            "source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/electron/tree/1.0.0-beta.5",
            "version": "1.0.0-beta.5",
            "description": "Electron wrapper for the NativePHP framework.",
            "abandoned": false
        },
        {
            "name": "nativephp/laravel",
            "direct-dependency": false,
            "homepage": "https://github.com/nativephp/laravel",
            "source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/laravel/tree/1.0.0-beta.2",
            "version": "1.0.0-beta.2",
            "description": "Laravel wrapper for the NativePHP framework.",
            "abandoned": false
        },
        {
            "name": "nativephp/php-bin",
            "direct-dependency": false,
            "homepage": "https://nativephp.com",
            "source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/php-bin/tree/0.6.0",
            "version": "0.6.0",
            "description": "PHP binaries used by the NativePHP framework",
            "abandoned": false
        }
    ]
}

PHP Version

8.4.4

Laravel Version

12.1.1

Node Version

22.11.0

Which operating systems have you seen this occur on?

macOS

OS version

15.4 beta

Notes

No response

[PeteBishwhip]

This can happen if the config is cached as env then returns null.

Can you try to reproduce after running:

php artisan optimize:clear

Or

php artisan config:clear

Thanks!