roblox-ts•8mo ago

Source and destination must not be the same

❯ npm run watch        

> [email protected] watch
> rbxtsc -w

[3:26:39 PM] Starting compilation in watch mode...

/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:172
                throw e;
                ^

Error: Source and destination must not be the same.
    at Object.checkPathsSync (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/util/stat.js:75:13)
    at Object.copySync (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/copy/copy-sync.js:27:38)
    at copyItem (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/copyItem.js:11:24)
    at /Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/copyFiles.js:9:37
    at benchmarkIfVerbose (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Shared/util/benchmark.js:24:9)
    at copyFiles (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/copyFiles.js:7:40)
    at runInitialCompile (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:77:35)
    at runCompile (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:152:24)
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:209:26)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:621:28)

Node.js v23.0.0

❯ npm run watch        

> [email protected] watch
> rbxtsc -w

[3:26:39 PM] Starting compilation in watch mode...

/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:172
                throw e;
                ^

Error: Source and destination must not be the same.
    at Object.checkPathsSync (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/util/stat.js:75:13)
    at Object.copySync (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/copy/copy-sync.js:27:38)
    at copyItem (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/copyItem.js:11:24)
    at /Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/copyFiles.js:9:37
    at benchmarkIfVerbose (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Shared/util/benchmark.js:24:9)
    at copyFiles (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/copyFiles.js:7:40)
    at runInitialCompile (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:77:35)
    at runCompile (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:152:24)
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/Users/myusername/Desktop/roblox-test/node_modules/roblox-ts/out/Project/functions/setupProjectWatchProgram.js:209:26)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:621:28)

Node.js v23.0.0

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Unknown User•8mo ago

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

Where would that be located?

Unknown User•8mo ago

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant by

output of the tsconfig.json

Unknown User•8mo ago

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

I haven't changed anything about the template. I'm also using npm 10.9.0

Unknown User•8mo ago

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

I'm on a apple silicon macbook. I've tried on windows and intel macbook and they work. Do you think this could be related and I might be SOL?

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

I followed those instructions and it got me here. I think I'll just try a manual installation using a different package manager. Thanks!

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

Same problem with starting a bare bones game template project with just roblox ts. I think this might be an apple silicon issue.

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

Yes, the issue is coming from the fs-extra dependency after running any of the build or watch commands.

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

No, same error

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

I think this is a larger issue with the difference in cpu architecture as fs-extra deals with paths. It's ok, I don't think either of us can solve this issue.

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PoppingPopperOP•8mo ago

Tested it differently with dirty debugging, It says they're both 'src' Can try your way later

PoppingPopperOP•4mo ago

Still having this issue. If you have time, I've logged the value of item

/Users/foouser/Desktop/roblox-test-project/src

/Users/foouser/Desktop/roblox-test-project/src

Getting this error on an M3 cpu Macbook. Using npm, bun produced the same results. Pretty sure this is something deeper with fs-extra.

PoppingPopperOP•4mo ago

Looks like there is a weird thing going on here I printed it out differently

function copyItem(data, pathTranslator, item) {
    console.log("DEBUG START")
    console.log("src: " + item)
    console.log("dest: " + pathTranslator.getOutputPath(item))
    console.log("DEBUG END")
    fs_extra_1.default.copySync(item, pathTranslator.getOutputPath(item), {

function copyItem(data, pathTranslator, item) {
    console.log("DEBUG START")
    console.log("src: " + item)
    console.log("dest: " + pathTranslator.getOutputPath(item))
    console.log("DEBUG END")
    fs_extra_1.default.copySync(item, pathTranslator.getOutputPath(item), {

DEBUG START
src: /Users/foouser/Desktop/roblox-test-project/src
dest: /Users/foouser/Desktop/roblox-test-project/src
DEBUG END

DEBUG START
src: /Users/foouser/Desktop/roblox-test-project/src
dest: /Users/foouser/Desktop/roblox-test-project/src
DEBUG END

Shouldn't dest have gone to /out?

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        // required
        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
        "downlevelIteration": true,
        "jsx": "react",
        "jsxFactory": "Roact.createElement",
        "jsxFragmentFactory": "Roact.createFragment",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "moduleResolution": "Node",
        "noLib": true,
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
        "moduleDetection": "force",
        "strict": true,
        "target": "ESNext",
        "typeRoots": ["node_modules/@rbxts", "node_modules/@flamework"],

        // configurable
        "rootDir": "src",
        "outDir": "out",
        "baseUrl": "src",
        "incremental": true,
        "tsBuildInfoFile": "out/tsconfig.tsbuildinfo",

        "plugins": [{ "transform": "rbxts-transformer-flamework" }]
    }
}

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        // required
        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
        "downlevelIteration": true,
        "jsx": "react",
        "jsxFactory": "Roact.createElement",
        "jsxFragmentFactory": "Roact.createFragment",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "moduleResolution": "Node",
        "noLib": true,
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
        "moduleDetection": "force",
        "strict": true,
        "target": "ESNext",
        "typeRoots": ["node_modules/@rbxts", "node_modules/@flamework"],

        // configurable
        "rootDir": "src",
        "outDir": "out",
        "baseUrl": "src",
        "incremental": true,
        "tsBuildInfoFile": "out/tsconfig.tsbuildinfo",

        "plugins": [{ "transform": "rbxts-transformer-flamework" }]
    }
}

It's a folder I can manually get it to work if I hardcode the dest path lol!

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