Support installation on Mac M1 ARM (using rosetta2)

I’m trying to install PACT for testing, I get the following error:

arch -x86_64 npm install @pact-foundation/pact-node
npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for @pact-foundation/pact-node@10.11.8: wanted {"os":"darwin,linux,win32","arch":"x64,ia32"} (current: {"os":"darwin","arch":"arm64"})
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    darwin,linux,win32
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  x64,ia32
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   darwin
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: arm64

I have tried with node 12 and node 15. / I have tried to specify arch x86_64 to run on rosseta2, but I think the issue is the call to the binary form js, would need to specify that flag if the architecture is darwin / arm64 pass the arch flag when calling the binary file to run it through rosetta2.

Any other workarounds that you suggest?

Thanks, Pedro

[lawrenceong]

@iknowcss We are using Apple M1 as well. We usually run pact locally, either manually or on commit. To workaround the following error when building via docker:

Error: Error while installing binary: Cannot find binary for platform 'linux' with architecture 'arm64'.

We added the following to Dockerfile:

# Skipping pact binary install as it is not compatible with Apple M1 CPU
# See: https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-js-core/issues/347
ENV PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL true

Can probably make it more comprehensive by detecting for CPU before setting it. Hope that helps.

[johanneswuerbach]

This should no longer be required since pact-node@10.13.1 / pact-core@11.1.0 as the cpu limitation was removed https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-js-core/pull/302

Now pact should just work ™️ with an arm node and rosetta installed 🎉. Thanks @TimothyJones