Compile Error on Fresh Project

[calvbore]

On a new project if I try to compile the default circuit I get this error immediately:

Error executing command: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb write_vk -b /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir.json -o /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir_vk
/bin/sh: 1: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb: not found

Error in plugin hardhat-plugin-noir: Error executing command: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb write_vk -b /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir.json -o /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir_vk

When I compile with --show-stack-traces, this is the additional info:

HardhatPluginError: Error executing command: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb write_vk -b /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir.json -o /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir_vk
    at /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/utils.ts:24:11
    at async /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/tasks.ts:47:9
    at async Promise.all (index 1)
    at async OverriddenTaskDefinition._action (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/tasks.ts:39:5)
    at async Environment._runTaskDefinition (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/runtime-environment.ts:351:14)
    at async Environment.run (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/runtime-environment.ts:184:14)
    at async main (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/cli/cli.ts:322:7)

[olehmisar]

could you please provide the full log?

Also, what is the result of the following commands?

ls /home/calvin/.bb
ls /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat
ls /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0

[calvbore]

Here is the full log:

Installing [email protected] in /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0
Installing to /home/calvin/.bb
✓ Installed barretenberg to /home/calvin/.bb

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 9528k  100 9528k    0     0  7943k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 7943k

Generating Solidity verifier for new_file...
Generating Solidity verifier for my_noir...
Error executing command: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb write_vk -b /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir.json -o /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir_vk
/bin/sh: 1: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb: not found

Error in plugin hardhat-plugin-noir: Error executing command: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb write_vk -b /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir.json -o /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir_vk

HardhatPluginError: Error executing command: /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0/bb write_vk -b /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir.json -o /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/noir/target/my_noir_vk
    at /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/utils.ts:24:11
    at async /home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/tasks.ts:47:9
    at async Promise.all (index 1)
    at async OverriddenTaskDefinition._action (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/tasks.ts:39:5)
    at async Environment._runTaskDefinition (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/runtime-environment.ts:351:14)
    at async Environment.run (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/runtime-environment.ts:184:14)
    at async main (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/cli/cli.ts:322:7)

ls /home/calvin/.bb gives me bb bbup hardhat
ls /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat gives me v0.66.0
ls /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.66.0 returns nothing

I do already have nargo and bb installed via the scripts in the noir documentation, not sure if that would be affecting this.

[olehmisar]

weird. What shell are you using? It does not pickup environment variables required to install the specific nargo and bb versions in the correct destination

[calvbore]

just using a default bash shell on pop os

[olehmisar]

idk how to reproduce it. I have only mac and ubuntu machines. Your shell/os is not picking up environment variables that are required for nargo and bb installation. Try updating your bash.

[olehmisar]

To make this plugin not rely on native nargo/bb, one would have to migrate it to wasm versions of nargo/bb.

[olehmisar]

try with version 0.3.1. I replaced exec with spawn, so maybe it changes how your OS is picking up env variables

[calvbore]

sorry for the late reply, my bash is at the latest version. I ran with [email protected] and get a permission denied error.

> [email protected] compile
> npx hardhat compile

Installing [email protected] in /home/calvin/.bb/hardhat/v0.67.0
Installing to /.bb
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 9658k  100 9658k    0     0  8071k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 43.0M
mkdir: cannot create directory '/.bb': Permission denied
An unexpected error occurred:

Error: Process exited with code 1
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/calvin/ethdev/hh-noir-starter/node_modules/hardhat-plugin-noir/src/utils.ts:31:18)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:303:5)