[Bug]: bsdtar.exe fails to run on windows: libcrypto dll not found

[peakschris]

What happened?

With rules_js 1.42.1 (and aspect_bazel_lib 2.7.3) on Windows, running js_test targets fails due to a missing crypto DLL:

D:\workspace>bazel test //src/test --verbose_failures
WARNING: Streamed test output requested. All tests will be run locally, without sharding, one at a time
INFO: Analyzed target //src/test:test (0 packages loaded, 0 targets configured).
ERROR: D:/workspace/BUILD.bazel:6:22: Extracting npm package @types/[email protected] failed: (Exit -1073741515): bsdtar.exe failed: error executing NpmPackageExtract command (from target //:.aspect_rules_js/node_modules/@[email protected]/pkg)
  cd /d D:/udu/b/nag22qmp/execroot/_main
external\aspect_bazel_lib~~toolchains~bsd_tar_windows_amd64\libarchive\bin\bsdtar.exe --extract --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions --strip-components 1 --file external/aspect_rules_js~~npm~npm__at_types_node__20.12.12/package.tgz --directory bazel-out/x64_windows-opt/bin/node_modules/.aspect_rules_js/@[email protected]/node_modules/@types/node
# Configuration: d850a7e5673f06961afdd7f68e62a46ae2620e12a4464604ad6d160b42ae6c5f
# Execution platform: @@my_toolchain~//platforms:x64_windows
Target //src/test:test failed to build
INFO: Elapsed time: 1.440s, Critical Path: 0.93s
INFO: 41 processes: 41 internal.
ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
//src/test:test    FAILED TO BUILD

Running the exe by double clicking is the easiest way to see what dependency is missing:

The issue is that libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll is not found

Version

Development (host) and target OS/architectures:

Output of bazel --version:
7.2.0rc1

Version of the Aspect rules, or other relevant rules from your
WORKSPACE or MODULE.bazel file:
rules_js 1.42.1
aspect_bazel_lib 2.7.3

Language(s) and/or frameworks involved:

How to reproduce

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Any other information?

No response

[peakschris]

This is the relevant open issue libarchive/libarchive#1925

[jjh42]

Did you find any workaround for this, like installing the dll?

[peakschris]

No, I'm still blocked for now on windows.

There has been action fixing a chain of issues, thanks to everyone who has contributed. The current issue is aspect-build/bsdtar-prebuilt#3. So I'm hoping it won't be long.

[jjh42]

This is my hack workaround to use system version of bsdtar (I'm using msys2 on windows). So its no longer hermetic toolchain but seems to work for me.

elefant-ai/rules_js@e98e7d4

[thesayyn]

Related, #968