WebGL not building Unity 2021/2022 (Error Code: -2146233086)

Hi!

I have been struggling all day getting unity to build WebGL to no avail, the project was building normally when I was using unity version 2020, but some features have been added to WebGL in the 2021 versions so I decided to update and I got stuck on this error:

Internal build system error. BuildProgram exited with code -2146233086.
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero. (Parameter 'length')
at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at BeeBuildProgramCommon.Packages.Resolve(String s)
at PlayerBuildProgramLibrary.PlayerBuildProgramBase.SetupCopyPlugins()
at PlayerBuildProgramLibrary.PlayerBuildProgramBase.SetupPlayerBuild()
at WebGLPlayerBuildProgram.WebGLPlayer.SetupPlayerBuild()
at PlayerBuildProgramLibrary.PlayerBuildProgramBase.RunBuildProgram()
at PlayerBuildProgramTypeWrapper.Run(String[] args)
at Program.Main(String[] args)
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

BuildFailedException: Incremental Player build failed!
UnityEditor.Modules.BeeBuildPostprocessor.PostProcess (UnityEditor.Modules.BuildPostProcessArgs args) (at <13c5ad68fffb46969f1ca1df233d1e4d>:0)
UnityEditor.WebGL.WebGlBuildPostprocessor.PostProcess (UnityEditor.Modules.BuildPostProcessArgs args) (at /Users/bokken/buildslave/unity/build/PlatformDependent/WebGL/Extensions/Unity.WebGL.extensions/BuildPostprocessor.cs:157)
UnityEditor.Modules.DefaultBuildPostprocessor.PostProcess (UnityEditor.Modules.BuildPostProcessArgs args, UnityEditor.BuildProperties& outProperties) (at <13c5ad68fffb46969f1ca1df233d1e4d>:0)
UnityEditor.PostprocessBuildPlayer.Postprocess (UnityEditor.BuildTargetGroup targetGroup, UnityEditor.BuildTarget target, System.Int32 subtarget, System.String installPath, System.String companyName, System.String productName, System.Int32 width, System.Int32 height, UnityEditor.BuildOptions options, UnityEditor.RuntimeClassRegistry usedClassRegistry, UnityEditor.Build.Reporting.BuildReport report) (at <13c5ad68fffb46969f1ca1df233d1e4d>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)

I tried googling and searching the forums, but none of the "solutions" worked for me. I tried updating to version 2022 but the same error persisted, I tried deleting the library folder, I tried clearing my LocalData Temp folder, I have tried everything I found!

Does anybody have any more insight into this issue?

 

I also got this error,

Spoiler: Same Error as Above from my project

Internal build system error. BuildProgram exited with code -2146233086.

System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero. (Parameter 'length')

at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)

at BeeBuildProgramCommon.Packages.Resolve(String s)

at PlayerBuildProgramLibrary.PlayerBuildProgramBase.SetupCopyPlugins()

at PlayerBuildProgramLibrary.PlayerBuildProgramBase.SetupPlayerBuild()

at AndroidPlayerBuildProgram.AndroidPlayerBuildProgram.SetupPlayerBuild()

at PlayerBuildProgramLibrary.PlayerBuildProgramBase.RunBuildProgram()

at PlayerBuildProgramTypeWrapper.Run(String[] args)

at Program.Main(String[] args)

UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

In the editor.log files I see this is where the exit code is happening.

Starting: C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2021.3.6f1\Editor\Data\Tools\netcorerun\netcorerun.exe "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2021.3.6f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\AndroidPlayerBuildProgram.exe" "C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2021.3.6f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/Bee;C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2021.3.6f1/Editor/Data/Tools/BuildPipeline" "Library/Bee/Playerb014e178.dag.json" "Library/Bee/Playerb014e178-inputdata.json" "Library/Bee/buildprogram0.traceevents"

WorkingDir: C:/Users/user/Documents/SDK test

ExitCode: -2146233086 Duration: 0s607ms

Internal build system error. BuildProgram exited with code -2146233086.

In my project I am using a Package from a Scoped Registry with one dependency, and when I remove it seems to build fine. When I import it straight into the project instead of using the package manager and have the same dependency installed as well separately, it also works fine. Ideally, I would have the package through the manager, I have been trying to look into this for a couple weeks, is there any fix for this?

Is there a way I can see into the code of the build process so that I can really see what's breaking?

 

I'm also encountering this exact issue. It appears to be related to working with packages.

The easiest way to reproduce this is to create an empty embedded package per the official documentation with just a package.json, put the word "framework" in the package name (weird I know) and voila.

Based on the stacktrace I would guess that someone has done something nasty with string manipulation

 

Definitely something odd string-wise haha,
seems if you make the package name:
com.example.framework it breaks
com.example.frameworks it works
com.example.plugin it breaks
com.example.plugins it works

seems directly related to the package name, and not by length. They may even be ignoring certain words, or the strings already exist in some other packages