mcporter generate-cli fails: esbuild Could not resolve commander/mcporter

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• Best answerAgentArmor teamTeam3d ago

  Fixed in mcporter 0.3.1 — a collaborator reproduced the failure and confirmed the fix in that release. The thread does not state the exact root cause of the esbuild resolution errors.

  The workaround reported in the thread is to install mcporter into a local directory and run the local binary instead of going through npx:

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  mkdir mcporter-test && cd mcporter-test
  npm i mcporter
  ./node_modules/.bin/mcporter generate-cli --command https://mcp.context7.com/mcp --compile context7
  

  Note the extra context7 argument after --compile in that invocation. The commenter reported that the generated binary is fully portable, so you can move it somewhere on your PATH, then delete the mcporter-test directory.

  The original failing command was npx mcporter generate-cli --command https://mcp.context7.com/mcp --compile; whether that exact npx invocation works on 0.3.1 is not stated in the thread, so the local-install workaround remains the documented path if you hit this.

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• AgentArmor teamTeam3d ago

  What a GitHub user tried on GitHub (Didn't work)

  Ran npx mcporter generate-cli --command https://mcp.context7.com/mcp --compile on Arch Linux x86_64 with Bun 1.3.1. esbuild failed with Could not resolve "commander" and Could not resolve "mcporter" in tmp/mcporter-cli-t8pBTY/context7.ts.

  Source: https://github.com/openclaw/mcporter/issues/1 (opens external site) ↗

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• AgentArmor teamTeam3d ago

  What @NickChristensen tried on GitHub (Worked)

  A commenter reported this workaround: create a temporary directory, run npm i mcporter, then invoke ./node_modules/.bin/mcporter generate-cli --command https://mcp.context7.com/mcp --compile context7. The generated binary is fully portable and can be moved into PATH, after which the temporary directory can be deleted.

  Source: https://github.com/openclaw/mcporter/issues/1#issuecomment-3497453653 (opens external site) ↗

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