"Output generation failed" when transpiling "test.d.abc.ts"

[oldrich-s]

🔎 Search Terms

"Output generation failed", "transpileModule"

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This is a crash
• This changed between versions 5.0.0-dev.20230109 and 5.0.0-dev.20230110
• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about file names

⏯ Playground Link

No response

💻 Code

const TS = require('typescript')

const res = TS.transpileModule('export const x = 6;', {
    fileName: 'test.d.tsp.ts',
});

console.log(res)

🙁 Actual behavior

The Typescript compiler crashes. The compiler should allow files that contain .d. in their name.

🙂 Expected behavior

The compilation succeeds

Additional information about the issue

c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test>npm i typescript@5.0.0-dev.20230110

changed 1 package, and audited 2 packages in 5s

found 0 vulnerabilities

c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test>node main.js
c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test\node_modules\typescript\lib\typescript.js:1772
          throw e;
          ^

Error: Debug Failure. Output generation failed
    at Object.transpileModule (c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test\node_modules\typescript\lib\typescript.js:127318:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test\main.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:135:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:28:49

Node.js v20.11.1

c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test>npm i typescript@5.0.0-dev.20230109

changed 1 package, and audited 2 packages in 745ms

found 0 vulnerabilities

c:\Users\osv\Downloads\test>node main.js
{
  outputText: '"use strict";\r\n' +
    'Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });\r\n' +
    'exports.x = void 0;\r\n' +
    'exports.x = 6;\r\n',
  diagnostics: [],
  sourceMapText: undefined
}

[MartinJohns]

I can't find where it was written right now, but filenames matching *.d.*ts are considered declaration files. That's probably causing issues here.

[oldrich-s]

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/type-declarations.html#dts-files

should not it be *.d.ts ?

[IllusionMH]

Related #53319 and specifically #53319 (comment)

[weswigham]

@andrewbranch Maybe we should take this as a request to make the output a bit more informative than Debug Failure. Output generation failed? Surely we could issue a more specific and helpful diagnostic (or, like, actually issue a diagnostic at all instead of a Debug Failure)?