Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1

[paulocoutinhox]

My error:

create-dmg \
		--volname "MyApp" \
		--icon "extras/macos/icon.icns" \
		--hide-extension "dist/MyApp.app" \
		--hdiutil-quiet \
		"MyApp.dmg" \
		"dist/MyApp.app"
Creating disk image...
Mounting disk image...
Device name:     /dev/disk18
Searching for mounted interstitial disk image using /dev/disk18s... 
Mount dir:       /Volumes/dmg.YI9n9f
String found where operator expected at -e line 1, at end of line
	(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
make: *** [dmg] Error 255

Can you help me?

[octopus-russell]

I'm also getting this issue

[pzhlkj6612]

Hi. It looks like the perl scripts didn't work properly.

create-dmg/create-dmg

Lines 477 to 480 in 6d23359

	| perl -pe "s/POSITION_CLAUSE/$POSITION_CLAUSE/g" \
	| perl -pe "s/QL_CLAUSE/$QL_CLAUSE/g" \
	| perl -pe "s/APPLICATION_CLAUSE/$APPLICATION_CLAUSE/g" \
	| perl -pe "s/HIDING_CLAUSE/$HIDING_CLAUSE/" \

I didn't dig into this but want to provide a way to analyze the issue.

Please execute set -x before executing create-dmg ... . The number of output lines will increase a lot. Paste the log between "Mount dir: ..." and "String found where operator expected ..." in your new comment. After that, execute set +x to revert the change.

[octopus-russell]

Hi, thanks for having a look, with set -x, I've obtained the following log:

Mounting disk image...
Device name: /dev/disk10
Searching for mounted interstitial disk image using /dev/disk10s...
Mount dir: /Volumes/dmg.KKJF9v
Making link to Applications dir...
/Volumes/dmg.KKJF9v
Unknown regexp modifier "/U" at -e line 1, at end of line
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
Error: Process completed with exit code 255.

Thanks

[pzhlkj6612]

Hi, thanks for having a look, with set -x, I've obtained the following log:

Sorry, specifying set -x outside does not work. Please try this:

env SHELLOPTS=xtrace create-dmg ...

No set +x required.

The output will be too much verbose, so please only paste the log between "Mount dir: ..." and "Can't find string terminator ..." in your new comment.

[Cy0u]

Hi, since there was no response from the author I am facing the same issue now.
Here is my output from

env SHELLOPTS=xtrace create-dmg ...

Mount dir:       /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK
+ [[ -n /vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.227.1/_work/1/s/App/App.MacOs/installer.png ]]
+ echo 'Copying background file '\''/vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.227.1/_work/1/s/App/App.MacOs/installer.png'\''...'
+ [[ -d /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK/.background ]]
Copying background file '/vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.227.1/_work/1/s/App/App.MacOs/installer.png'...
+ mkdir /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK/.background
+ cp /vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.227.1/_work/1/s/App/App.MacOs/installer.png /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK/.background/installer.png
+ [[ -n 593 ]]
+ echo 'Making link to Applications dir...'
+ echo /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK
+ ln -s /Applications /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK/Applications
Making link to Applications dir...
/Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK
+ [[ -n '' ]]
+ [[ -n '' ]]
+ [[ -n '' ]]
++ basename /Volumes/dmg.sRtJLK
+ VOLUME_NAME=dmg.sRtJLK
++ mktemp -t createdmg.tmp.XXXXXXXXXX
+ APPLESCRIPT_FILE=/var/folders/qh/3mwgzh5j4wndm11mjqpxc3p40000gn/T/createdmg.tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.dxkMShQy
+ [[ 0 -eq 1 ]]
+ [[ 0 -eq 0 ]]
+ cat /opt/homebrew/share/create-dmg/support/template.applescript
+ sed -e s/WINX/200/g -e s/WINY/120/g -e s/WINW/835/g -e s/WINH/500/g -e 's/BACKGROUND_CLAUSE/set background picture of opts to file ".background:installer.png"/g' -e 's/REPOSITION_HIDDEN_FILES_CLAUSE/set position of every item to {theBottomRightX + 100, 100}/g' -e s/ICON_SIZE/128/g -e s/TEXT_SIZE/16/g
+ perl -pe 's/POSITION_CLAUSE/set position of item "/vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.227.1/_work/1/s/App/App.MacOs/bin/Release/Archive/2023-12-11/Archive.xcarchive/Products/Applications/Application.app" to {230, 295}
			/g'
+ perl -pe s/QL_CLAUSE//g
+ perl -pe 's/APPLICATION_CLAUSE/set position of item "Applications" to {593, 295}
			/g'
+ perl -pe 's/HIDING_CLAUSE/set the extension hidden of item "/vsts-agent-osx-x64-3.227.1/_work/1/s/App/App.MacOs/bin/Release/Archive/2023-12-11/Archive.xcarchive/Products/Applications/Application.app" to true
			/'
Unknown regexp modifier "/U" at -e line 1, at end of line
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
Unknown regexp modifier "/U" at -e line 1, at end of line
Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

I do execute that as a part of our pipeline, so the call is made from a terminal.
The terminal got full disk permissions in MacOs.
I hope that helps, if not please ask me which information I can provide.

Thanks and kind regards,
Aron

[Cy0u]

So we figured out why this wasn't working on the hosted agent.
We allowed "APPLESCRIPT" on the agent and then everything worked like excpected. :-)

[aonez]

If this can be verified by others that had the same issue maybe we can add a check to properly fail when this is needed.

[Cy0u]

We did run that script:

epochdate=$(($(date +'%s * 1000 + %-N / 1000000')))
tcc_service_appleevents="replace into access (service,client,client_type,auth_value,auth_reason,auth_version,indirect_object_identifier_type,indirect_object_identifier,flags,last_modified) values (\"kTCCServiceAppleEvents\",\"/run\",1,2,4,1,0,\"com.apple.finder\",0,$epochdate);"
sudo sqlite3 "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db" "$tcc_service_appleevents"  

/run was the startup shell script for the dev ops agent.

[octopus-russell]

So we figured out why this wasn't working on the hosted agent. We allowed "APPLESCRIPT" on the agent and then everything worked like excpected. :-)

How does one 'allow' applescript?

[Cy0u]

So we figured out why this wasn't working on the hosted agent. We allowed "APPLESCRIPT" on the agent and then everything worked like excpected. :-)

How does one 'allow' applescript?

I posted the script one comment above yours.

[paulocoutinhox]

Im getting the same error and when try the script i get Error: unable to open database "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db": authorization denied.

And it exists:

ls -lah "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db"
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    56K Feb  2 12:13 /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db

[aonez]

Does this also occur with version 1.1.0?

https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg/releases/tag/v1.1.0