Couldn't install luacheck, linking issue

[oyeyipo]

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I've recently downloaded the latest plugin version of mason.nvim

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Problem description

While other packages' installation works, the luacheck package fails due to symbolic linking of a non-existent file at bin\luacheck.bat. When I ran MasonInstall --debug luacheck, I saw that a file luacheck is located in the bin directory which seems like the file Mason was looking for based on its content. The bat file was at C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\nvim-data\mason\packages\luacheck\bin.

Expected behavior

Location of the batch file without the '.bat' extension for successful symbolic linking to complete the luacheck installation.

Affected packages

Luacheck

Mason output

luacheck 1.1.0-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.4-1 provided by VM: success)
luacheck 1.1.0-1 depends on argparse >= 0.6.0 (not installed)
Installing https://luarocks.org/argparse-0.7.1-1.src.rock

argparse 0.7.1-1 depends on lua >= 5.1, < 5.5 (5.4-1 provided by VM: success)
argparse 0.7.1-1 is now installed in C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\nvim-data\mason\packages\luacheck (license: MIT)

luacheck 1.1.0-1 depends on luafilesystem >= 1.6.3 (not installed)
Installing https://luarocks.org/luafilesystem-1.8.0-1.src.rock

luafilesystem 1.8.0-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.4-1 provided by VM: success)
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -O2 -c -o src/lfs.o -IC:\Program Files\Lua\lib\include src/lfs.c
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc  -shared -o C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Temp\luarocks_build-LuaFileSystem-1.8.0-1-178057\lfs.dll src/lfs.o C:\Program Files\Lua\lib\lua54.dll -lm
luafilesystem 1.8.0-1 is now installed in C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\nvim-data\mason\packages\luacheck (license: MIT/X11)

luacheck 1.1.0-1 is now installed in C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\nvim-data\mason\packages\luacheck (license: MIT)

No existing manifest. Attempting to rebuild...
Tried to link bin "luacheck" to non-existent target "bin\\luacheck.bat".

Installation log

[INFO  31-May-24 11:12:32] ...m-data/lazy/mason.nvim/lua/mason-core/installer/init.lua:184: Executing installer for Package(name=luacheck) {}
[ERROR 31-May-24 11:14:11] ...m-data/lazy/mason.nvim/lua/mason-core/installer/init.lua:249: Installation failed for Package(name=luacheck) error='Tried to link bin "luacheck" to non-existent target "bin\\\\luacheck.bat".'
[ERROR 31-May-24 11:15:28] ...a/lazy/mason-lspconfig.nvim/lua/mason-lspconfig/init.lua:33: Failed to set up lspconfig integration. ...on-lspconfig.nvim/lua/mason-lspconfig/lspconfig_hook.lua:56: module 'lspconfig.util' not found:
	no field package.preload['lspconfig.util']
cache_loader: module lspconfig.util not found
cache_loader_lib: module lspconfig.util not found
	no file '.\lspconfig\util.lua'
	no file 'C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\lua\lspconfig\util.lua'
	no file 'C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\lua\lspconfig\util\init.lua'
	no file '.\lspconfig\util.dll'
	no file 'C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\lspconfig\util.dll'
	no file 'C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\loadall.dll'
	no file '.\lspconfig.dll'
	no file 'C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\lspconfig.dll'
	no file 'C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin\loadall.dll'

Neovim version (>= 0.7)

NVIM v0.10.0 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1713484068 Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

Operating system/version

Windows 10

Healthcheck

mason.nvim ~
- OK mason.nvim version v1.10.0
- OK PATH: prepend
- OK Providers: 
    mason.providers.registry-api
    mason.providers.client
- OK neovim version >= 0.7.0

mason.nvim [Registries] ~
- OK Registry `github.com/mason-org/mason-registry version: 2024-05-30-soft-bay` is installed.

mason.nvim [Core utils] ~
- WARNING unzip: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: unzip failed with exit code - and signal -. unzip is not executable
- WARNING wget: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: wget failed with exit code - and signal -. wget is not executable
- OK curl: `curl 8.4.0 (Windows) libcurl/8.4.0 Schannel WinIDN
`
- WARNING gzip: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: gzip failed with exit code - and signal -. gzip is not executable
- OK tar: `bsdtar 3.5.2 - libarchive 3.5.2 zlib/1.2.5.f-ipp 
`
- OK pwsh: `7.4.2 Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045 Win32NT
`
- WARNING 7z: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: 7z failed with exit code - and signal -. 7z is not executable

mason.nvim [Languages] ~
- WARNING cargo: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: cargo failed with exit code - and signal -. cargo is not executable
- WARNING Ruby: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: ruby failed with exit code - and signal -. ruby is not executable
- WARNING RubyGem: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: gem.cmd failed with exit code - and signal -. gem.cmd is not executable
- WARNING Composer: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: composer.bat failed with exit code - and signal -. composer.bat is not executable
- WARNING PHP: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: php failed with exit code - and signal -. php is not executable
- OK Go: `go version go1.22.3 windows/amd64`
- OK luarocks: `luarocks 3.11.0
`
- WARNING julia: not available
  - ADVICE:
    - spawn: julia failed with exit code - and signal -. julia is not executable
- OK node: `v18.12.1
`
- OK python: `Python 3.11.9
`
- OK java: `openjdk version "17.0.11" 2024-04-16
`
- OK javac: `javac 17.0.11
`
- OK pip: `pip 24.0 from C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.11)

`
- OK python venv: `Ok`
- OK npm: `9.2.0`

mason.nvim [GitHub] ~
- OK GitHub API rate limit. Used: 6. Remaining: 54. Limit: 60. Reset: 31-May-24 11:40:11.
  Install and authenticate via gh-cli to increase rate limit.

Screenshots

No response

[oyeyipo]

Furthermore. took a look at the luacheck repo and the file exists at https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck/blob/master/bin/luacheck.bat.

In the directory 'bin' at the repo is another file named luacheck.lua but this is not being pulled in as part of the mason's 'luacheck' package. Only a luacheck file which contains the content of https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck/blob/master/bin/luacheck.lua

[powerman]

Now it fails to install it on Linux too:

Installing luarocks package [email protected]…
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed extracting manifest file: failed extracting /home/powerman/.cache/luarocks/https___luarocks.org/manifest-5.1.zip
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed loading manifest for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/: /home/powerman/.cache/luarocks/https___raw.githubusercontent.com_rocks-moonscript-org_moonrocks-mirror_master/manifest-5.1: No such file or directory
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed loading manifest for https://loadk.com/luarocks/: /home/powerman/.cache/luarocks/https___loadk.com_luarocks/manifest-5.1: No such file or directory

Error: No results matching query were found for Lua 5.1.
To check if it is available for other Lua versions, use --check-lua-versions.

[egel]

I've recently encountered the same problem when I set up but on macOS (Sonoma), with Mason (commit: c5e07b8).

I looked into Mason logs and noticed luarocks failing to be installed. I soleved my problem by installing missing luarocks via brew:

brew install luarocks

It may not resolve the original problem on Windows machines, although hoping it may guide you to quicker find the solution on your hardware.

[powerman]

I've luarocks-3.11.1 installed by OS (Gentoo linux) package manager, but this doesn't resolve the issue for me.