force-autodiscovery (enabled) and dump-autoload (disabled) are incompatible

[llaville]

Bug report

Question	Answer
Box version	4.6.2@29c3585
PHP version	8.2.23
Platform with version	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Github Repo	- https://github.com/llaville/sarif-php-converters/ (branch 1.0)

box.json

{
   "main": "report-converter",
   "output": "sarif-php-converters.phar",
   "force-autodiscovery": true,
   "dump-autoload": false,
   "exclude-dev-files": false,
   "files": [
       "autoload.php",
       "report-converter.php"
   ],
   "finder": [
       {
           "name": "*.php",
           "exclude": [
               "examples",
               "resources",
               "test",
               "tests"
           ],
           "in": [
               "vendor-bin/phan",
               "vendor-bin/phpcs",
               "vendor-bin/phpcs-fixer",
               "vendor-bin/phplint",
               "vendor-bin/phpmd",
               "vendor-bin/phpstan",
               "vendor-bin/psalm",
               "vendor-bin/twigcs-fixer"
           ]
       }
   ],
   "blacklist": [
       "vendor/bamarni/composer-bin-plugin/"
   ],
   "compression": "GZ"
}

Output

box compile -c box.json

output

Box version 4.6.2@29c3585 2024-04-23 19:35:41 UTC

 // Loading the configuration file "box.json".

🔨  Building the PHAR "/shared/backups/bartlett/sarif-php-converters/sarif-php-converters.phar"

? Removing the existing PHAR "/shared/backups/bartlett/sarif-php-converters/sarif-php-converters.phar"
? Skipping the Composer compatibility check: the autoloader is not dumped
? No compactor to register
? Adding main file: /shared/backups/bartlett/sarif-php-converters/report-converter
? Adding requirements checker
? Adding binary files
    > No file found
? Auto-discover files? Yes
? Exclude dev files? No
? Adding files
    > 7172 file(s)
? Generating new stub
  - Using shebang line: #!/usr/bin/env php
  - Using banner:
    > Generated by Humbug Box 4.6.2@29c3585.
    >
    > @link https://github.com/humbug/box
? Skipping dumping the Composer autoloader
? Removing the Composer dump artefacts
? Compressing with the algorithm "GZ"
    > Warning: the extension "zlib" will now be required to execute the PHAR
? Setting file permissions to 0755
* Done.

💡  1 recommendation found:
    - The "exclude-dev-files" setting can be omitted since is set to its default value
No warning found.

 // PHAR: 7205 files (9.71MB)
 // You can inspect the generated PHAR with the "info" command.

 // Memory usage: 121.51MB (peak: 123.61MB), time: 8secs

Once compiled, try to run the PHAR, but got :

Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: Unable to find "vendor/autoload.php" in "phar:///shared/backups/bartlett/sarif-php-converters/sarif-php-converters.phar"

After investigation, checks with box info sarif-php-converters.phar -l -m flat command, I found that vendor/autoload.php is not included.

The reason force-autodiscovery (enabled) and dump-autoload (disabled) are incompatible.

If I removed the dump-autoload setting, and re-compile the PHAR, the vendor/autoload.php is included again and my application is able to run.

But, as I said #580 (comment), I cannot use the -d|--working-dir option of BOX compile (it was my workaround, but it has a limit !)