shellcheck not found on M1 Mac

I’m getting this error when I open a shell script:

The shellcheck program was not found (not installed?). Use the ‘shellcheck.executablePath’ setting to configure the location of ‘shellcheck’

I have shellcheck installed via Homebrew:

% which shellcheck
/opt/homebrew/bin/shellcheck

Poking around a bit, I found what looks like the relevant source:

https://github.com/timonwong/vscode-shellcheck/blob/3a803d31912b863985405da042339db98fda0c56/src/linter.ts#L136

https://github.com/timonwong/vscode-shellcheck/blob/3a803d31912b863985405da042339db98fda0c56/src/linter.ts#L199

From that, I can see that there isn’t a binary for the M1 architecture:

% tree ~/.vscode/extensions/timonwong.shellcheck-0.14.1/binaries
/Users/bhrutledge/.vscode/extensions/timonwong.shellcheck-0.14.1/binaries
├── darwin
│   └── x64
│       └── shellcheck
├── linux
│   ├── arm
│   │   └── shellcheck
│   ├── arm64
│   │   └── shellcheck
│   └── x64
│       └── shellcheck
└── win32
    └── x32
        └── shellcheck.exe

Still, I would have expected the default of shellcheck to work. I thought it might be related to my runtime PATH not being set properly, but looking at process.env.PATH from the VS Code Developer Tools shows that it includes /opt/homebrew/bin.

Of course, this is a minor annoyance, because I can set it manually, but it’d be nice if it just worked. 😄

[felipecrs]

Did you try "shellcheck.executablePath": "shellcheck"?

[felipecrs]

@lu-yanda what’s this hook, man? Seems like the extension is trying to use this hook (check your vscode settings), and the hook can’t find shellcheck installed.