`make sandbox`, `make dev`, `make build-dev` and `make build-prod` all
died with "/bin/sh: wails3: command not found". `wails3 dev` and
`wails3 task` are supervisors: they run the scaffold's Taskfile tree,
which invokes `wails3` by bare name in 54 places across four files. The
CLI is a vendored Go tool by design (plan 009, D3 — a global install
would be this build's first undeclared dependency), so that name did
not exist.
scripts/toolbin/wails3 execs `go tool wails3`, and the Makefile
prepends that directory only for the targets that start a supervisor.
Rewriting 54 scaffold call sites would be churn to redo on every
scaffold refresh; nothing global is installed either way.
The shim does not cd. The first version did, to be sure `go tool` found
the module — it does not need to — and that silently discarded the
`dir:` a task had set, so generate:icons failed with "open
appicon.png: no such file or directory" against a file that was there.
Three things the build path needed once it got that far:
- `frontend/package.json` gains `build:dev`, which build:frontend runs
under DEV=true and which did not exist.
- Vite binds 127.0.0.1. It defaulted to `localhost`, which resolves to
`[::1]` only here, while wails3 dev's asset proxy dials IPv4 — so the
first request for the dev server was refused and the first paint
raced a retry. Zero proxy errors after.
- The icons and the .desktop file are generated on every build.
icons.icns/icon.ico are deterministic from our appicon.png (verified
by regenerating), so the regenerated pair is committed and the churn
ends; .task/ and the .desktop file are ignored.
Also corrects a claim: build-prod strips and trims but does **not**
UPX-compress — that was v2's `-upx` flag. Phase 1 recorded UPX as
still working, but neither build target had been run.
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Phase 1 of plan 009. The app still builds and runs on v2 — nothing in
main.go or backend/ has moved yet — but the v3 CLI, its pinned runtime
and its build-asset tree are now present, which is what Phase 2 needs.
- wails/v3 v3.0.0-beta.8 pinned per D5, and wails3 added to the `tool`
block beside the v2 CLI per D3. Both are vendored; neither is a
global install.
- build/ now holds the v3 build assets, copied wholesale from a
`wails3 init` scaffold rather than hand-written. That collides with
this repo's existing use of build/ as ignored build *output*, so
.gitignore narrows to build/bin/ and bin/ and the assets are tracked.
The mobile platforms are not carried: this is a desktop player
(MPRIS over D-Bus, beep, XDG paths) and cannot target them.
- build/config.yml's info block is filled from wails.json, which stays
for now because the v2 CLI still reads it.
- Taskfile.yml defaults PACKAGE_MANAGER to pnpm, since the scaffold
assumes npm and frontend/package.json.md5 is part of the dep-caching
scheme.
One deviation from the plan worth recording. webkitgtk-6.0 is not
installed on this machine, so the default GTK4 path is unavailable and
the gtk3 fallback is in use. That also means `go tool wails3` does not
work — the CLI itself fails to compile without webkitgtk-6.0 — while
`go run -tags gtk3 .../cmd/wails3` does. The Makefile rewrite in the
next commit has to account for that, and it goes away once the GTK4
dependency is installed.
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