Move compiling the go utilities from buildMain to postinstall.

Signed-off-by: Eric Promislow <epromislow@suse.com>

pkg/rancher-desktop/utils/paths.ts

@@ -127,20 +127,21 @@ function getPaths(): Paths {
   let pathsData: Partial<Paths>;
 
   if (rdctlPath) {
-    const result = spawnSync(rdctlPath, ['paths'], { encoding: 'utf8' });
+    try {
+      const result = spawnSync(rdctlPath, ['paths'], { encoding: 'utf8' });
 
-    if (result.status !== 0) {
-      throw new Error(`rdctl paths failed: ${ JSON.stringify(result) }`);
+      if (!result.status && result.stdout) {
+        pathsData = JSON.parse(result.stdout);
+      }
+    } catch {
     }
-    pathsData = JSON.parse(result.stdout);
-  } else {
-    // If rdctl hasn't been compiled yet, we can't use it to get paths.
-    // Define defaults that assume that we are running a script.
-    pathsData = {
-      resources: path.join(process.cwd(), 'resources'),
-      logs:      path.join(process.cwd(), 'script_logs'),
-    };
   }
+  // If rdctl hasn't been compiled yet, we can't use it to get paths.
+  // Define defaults that assume that we are running a script.
+  pathsData ??= {
+    resources: path.join(process.cwd(), 'resources'),
+    logs:      path.join(process.cwd(), 'script_logs'),
+  };
 
   switch (process.platform) {
   case 'darwin':

scripts/lib/build-utils.ts

@@ -458,7 +458,14 @@ export default {
    * Build the main process code.
    */
   buildMain(): Promise<void> {
-    const tasks = [() => this.buildJavaScript(this.webpackConfig)];
+    return this.wait(() => this.buildJavaScript(this.webpackConfig));
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Build the things we build with go
+   */
+  buildGoUtilities(): Promise<void> {
+    const tasks = [];
 
     if (os.platform().startsWith('win')) {
       tasks.push(() => this.buildWSLHelper());

scripts/postinstall.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import fs from 'fs';
 import os from 'os';
 import path from 'path';
 
+import buildUtils from './lib/build-utils';
+
 import { spawnFile } from '@pkg/utils/childProcess';
 import { LimaAndQemu, AlpineLimaISO } from 'scripts/dependencies/lima';
 import { MobyOpenAPISpec } from 'scripts/dependencies/moby-openapi';
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ const keepScriptAlive = setTimeout(() => { }, 24 * 3600 * 1000);
       'pkg/rancher-desktop/assets/specs/command-api.yaml',
       'src/go/rdctl/pkg/options/generated/options.go'],
     { stdio: 'inherit' });
+    await buildUtils.buildGoUtilities();
     exitCode = 0;
   } catch (e: any) {
     console.error('POSTINSTALL ERROR: ', e);