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Adds support for non-arm64 hosts (WSL2 TH UI/CLI support companion) - #362

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Summary

Adds non-arm64 host support to the backend setup, complementing the Test Harness WSL2 support, and fixes fresh builds of the backend Docker image.

Items addressed:

  • Building the backend image anew fails on any architecture: npm install -g npm@latest pulls npm 12, which requires node 22 or newer, while the image installs node 20. Published images are unaffected, the failure appears the next time the image is built
  • On non-arm64 hosts, the arm64-only SDK image cannot be pulled, which failed the whole test collections setup

For compatibility, npm is pinned to the newest major that supports the image's node version, the sample apps installation is skipped with build instructions when the SDK image is not available, and a new script builds the SDK image locally with the exact tag the backend expects.

Companion Install Scripts PR
Adds WSL2 support to the Test Harness UI/CLI- #1093

Included in this PR

  • Pin npm to the newest major compatible with the image's node 20 (Dockerfile)
  • On non-arm64 hosts with no local SDK image, skip the sample apps installation gracefully with build instructions instead of failing the setup (update-sample-apps.sh)
  • New build-local-sdk-image.sh: builds the SDK image (connectedhomeip/chip-cert-bins) locally for the host architecture with the exact tag the backend expects

Testing

  • Fresh backend image build on x86_64 succeeds with the pin (previously failed at the npm step with EBADENGINE; the failure is architecture independent)
  • Both update-sample-apps.sh paths exercised on WSL2 (x86_64): the graceful skip during install, and the normal extraction path after the local SDK image build (native x86_64 sample apps installed into ~/apps)
  • build-local-sdk-image.sh built the 11.2GB SDK image on x86_64 through the automatic gn patch, exits early when a matching image for the host architecture already exists, and its failure handling (build log capture and retry guidance) was exercised by real failed runs
./backend/test_collections/matter/scripts/build-local-sdk-image.sh

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The Docker image now installs npm 11 for compatibility with Node.js 20. A new script builds the Matter SDK image locally for the host architecture, using configured image values and a pinned Dockerfile reference. It patches a known GN build issue, records build logs, and reports targeted failure guidance. The sample-app update flow now detects non-aarch64 hosts without a local image and provides local build instructions instead of pulling the published arm64 image.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Developer
  participant UpdateScript as update-sample-apps.sh
  participant Builder as build-local-sdk-image.sh
  participant Docker as Docker daemon
  Developer->>UpdateScript: Run sample-app update
  UpdateScript->>UpdateScript: Check host architecture and local image
  UpdateScript-->>Developer: Show local build instructions when required
  Developer->>Builder: Build the SDK image locally
  Builder->>Docker: Build the host-architecture image
  Docker-->>Builder: Return build status
  Developer->>UpdateScript: Run sample-app update again
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The PR adds local SDK image builds and graceful non-arm64 setup behavior, but the current implementation still has a required spellcheck failure, can accept a cached SDK image with the wrong architecture, and can publish alternate Dockerfile contents under the trusted SDK tag. Merge should wait until these bounded correctness and provenance issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: support for non-arm64 hosts. The WSL2 companion context is also consistent with the pull request scope.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the npm compatibility fix, non-arm64 SDK image handling, new build script, and testing performed.
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In `@test_collections/matter/scripts/build-local-sdk-image.sh`:
- Around line 56-59: Update the spellcheck dictionary to allow the technical
terms used by HOST_DOCKER_ARCH in
test_collections/matter/scripts/build-local-sdk-image.sh lines 56-59,
specifically aarch and armv; allow distro and PYEOF for lines 88-119, or rename
the heredoc delimiter; and allow aarch in
test_collections/matter/scripts/update-sample-apps.sh lines 36-40.
- Around line 29-31: Quote all filesystem path arguments and expansions in
build-local-sdk-image.sh: update the realpath/dirname expression used to
initialize MATTER_PROGRAM_DIR, and quote the MATTER_PROGRAM_DIR/config.py path
and related reads around the configuration check so whitespace-containing
directories remain a single valid path.

In `@test_collections/matter/scripts/update-sample-apps.sh`:
- Around line 39-40: Update the conditional using DOCKER_IMAGE_FOUND and
HOST_ARCH so a locally found Docker image is reused only when its architecture
matches the host architecture. Inspect the existing architecture-validation
approach in build-local-sdk-image.sh and apply the same comparison before
allowing the branch to bypass the build path; preserve the current behavior for
missing images and matching architectures.
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@raul-marquez-csa could you please rebase this PR onto v2.16-develop (instead of main), and update the merge/target branch from main to v2.16-develop? This is the ongoing development branch for Matter v1.7 version.

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Closing as superseded: #341 removed the nodejs/npm/cspell install from the Dockerfile on v2.16-develop

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