Bazel fails to build the project on Apple silicon processors

[claydiffrient]

When doing a few recent contributions, I was unable to build the project on my normal M1 Macbook and instead had to use an older Intel Mac to run the build.

The error I received was:

ERROR: ~/dataform/sandbox/vm/BUILD:42:14: While resolving toolchains for target //sandbox/vm:compile: no matching toolchains found for types @build_bazel_rules_nodejs//toolchains/node:toolchain_type
ERROR: Analysis of target '//cli:cli' failed; build aborted:

I believe that updating to a newer version of rules_nodejs will fix it similar to this issue.

Sadly, I don't have the bandwidth to do such an upgrade at the moment, but wanted to at least make sure there was an issue filed in case someone else can do it.

[ashish10alex]

Having the same issue when trying to build using Bazel on M2 Mac. I tried updating the config but ended up in dependancy hell

Would highly appreciate if someone could update the WORKSPACE config required to make this work on Apple Silicon.

[Ekrekr]

I think a bunch of our dependencies are older than the release of the M1 instruction set 😅 so this is unsurprising.

Bumping our dependencies will probably fix that, but that's a fairly painful process. It's already on the radar though, so this may be fixed in the next couple months.