[FLINK-32142] Apple Silicon Support: Unable to Build Flink Project due to "Bad CPU Type" Error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.16.0, 1.17.0, 1.15.2, 1.15.3, 1.16.1, 1.15.4, 1.16.2, 1.18.0, 1.17.1, 1.15.5, 1.16.3, 1.17.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.20.0
• Component/s: Build System, Runtime / Web Frontend
• Labels: pull-request-available stale-assigned

Environment

Apple Silicon architecture (M2 Pro)

macOS Ventura (Version 13.3.1)

• Assignee: Elphas Toringepi
• Reporter: Elphas Toringepi
• Created: 21/May/23 12:31
• Updated: 11/Mar/24 12:43

Description

Attempting to build the Flink project on Apple Silicon architecture results in an error related to the execution of the frontend-maven-plugin.

The error message indicates that the plugin fails to run "flink/flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard/node/node" program due to a "Bad CPU type in executable" error.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin:1.11.0:npm (npm install) on project flink-runtime-web: Failed to run task: 'npm ci --cache-max=0 --no-save ${npm.proxy}' failed. java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "flink/flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard/node/node" (in directory "flink/flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard"): error=86, Bad CPU type in executable

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Clone the Flink project repository. 
2. Attempt to build the project on an Apple Silicon device.
3. Observe the error message mentioned above.

git clone https://github.com/apache/flink.git
cd flink
./mvnw clean package -DskipTests

Proposed Solution

Upgrade frontend-maven-plugin from version 1.11.0 to the latest version, 1.12.1.

frontend-maven-plugin version 1.11.0 downloads x64 binaries node-v16.13.2-darwin-x64.tar.gz instead of the arm64 binaries.

Support for arm64 has been available for frontend-maven-plugin  since version 2. https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin/pull/970

[DEBUG] Executing command line [/Users/elphas/src/flink/flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard/node/node, --version] [INFO] Installing node version v16.13.2 [DEBUG] Creating temporary directory /flink/flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard/node/tmp [INFO] Unpacking ~/.m2/repository/com/github/eirslett/node/16.13.2/node-16.13.2-darwin-x64.tar.gz into flink/flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard/node/tmp

 

 

 

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #22614