Linux + Mac aarch64/arm64 support

[juancferrer]

Looks like browserstack-local binary is only compiled for x86_64 and ia32.

I'm on an an M1 mac successfully running multiple docker containers with selenium and browserstack, etc..., but I'm running into issues when trying to run browserstack-local.

$ uname -a
Linux 3d7e5f8f8bfb 5.10.76-linuxkit #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 8 11:22:26 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux

And when I try to run browserstack-local I get the following:

qemu-x86_64: Could not open '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory

and

Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/prefix/prefix/app/tests/test_web.py", line 41, in setUpClass
    cls.bs_local.start(**cls.bs_local_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/browserstack/local.py", line 43, in start
    self.binary_path = LocalBinary().get_binary()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/browserstack/local_binary.py", line 112, in get_binary
    raise BrowserStackLocalError('BrowserStack Local binary is corrupt')
browserstack.bserrors.BrowserStackLocalError: BrowserStack Local binary is corrupt

Obviously because all my docker containers are running an ARM linux kernel, and there's only browserstack-local binaries for x86_64 and ia32

[edwinclement08]

by any chance, have you tried out https://github.com/browserstack/docker-browserstack-local

[harish18051991]

I am facing the same issue with nodejs library, did you get this issue fixed or have any work around.

[yarramneedik17]

I am facing similar issue, But I am not running on Docker, it is in my local I am getting the issue below

line 37, in __init__
   self.bs_local.start(**self.bs_local_args)
 File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/browserstack/local.py", line 100, in start
   raise BrowserStackLocalError(data["message"]["message"])
browserstack.bserrors.BrowserStackLocalError: Auth Token must be alphanumeric characters only. Please fetch it from Local Testing section of settings page:  https://www.browserstack.com/accounts/settings
Local binary disconnected - bs_local status: False

[rahulHbrowserstack]

Hello @yarramneedik17 , this issue occurs when you have used wrong Accesskey. Check your Accesskey from the link https://www.browserstack.com/accounts/settings; and make the changes accordingly.

[yarramneedik17]

Thanks for the suggestion, I have fixed that issue, but we are seeing new issue.

line 37, in __init__
    self.bs_local.start(**self.bs_local_args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/browserstack/local.py", line 105, in start
    raise BrowserStackLocalError('Error parsing JSON output from daemon. Raw String = "{}"'.format(output_string))
browserstack.bserrors.BrowserStackLocalError: Error parsing JSON output from daemon. Raw String = ""
Local binary disconnected - bs_local status: False

[juancferrer]

I'm still not able to run browserstacklocal inside an aarch64 docker container.

At first I was getting:
qemu-x86_64: Could not open '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory

I was able to get rid of the missing libraries by having something like the following in my Dockerfile

RUN apt-get install libc6-amd64-cross
RUN ln -s /usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib64/ /lib64
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/lib64:/usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib"

Now when I run the BrowserStackLocal binary, it just prints out Bus error to the terminal, and exits
Was hoping that installing all the x86-64 libraries would make it work, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

The core issue being that there are NOT any aarch64 builds for BrowserStackLocal.
You can see here: https://github.com/browserstack/browserstack-local-python/blob/master/browserstack/local_binary.py#L10

There's builds for mac (intel), linux 32+64 bit and windows. No builds for mac (apple silicon) or what I want, which is linux aarch64/arm64.

Looks like you're not able to use browserstack local if you're developing on aarch64 mac or linux. 👎🏼

[juancferrer]

@yarramneedik17 @harish18051991
I think I finally figured it out.

I'm successfully running BrowserStackLocal 8.9 x86-64 binary

file BrowserStackLocal
BrowserStackLocal: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=ad80d59dd2ba86614fa8b0a06354ac7baaf6d7c7, stripped

inside a Linux aarch64 docker container

uname -a
Linux bed2a7055516 5.15.49-linuxkit #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 13 07:51:32 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux

So to get everything working, you just need the libstdc++6-amd64-cross package, and make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the path to the x86_64 libraries

So on my ubuntu/debian based docker image, I just had to do the following

RUN apt-get install libstdc++6-amd64-cross
RUN ln -s /usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib64/ /lib64
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/lib64:/usr/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib"

and now inside that docker container, the BrowserStackLocal binary runs as expected.