Summary

When following the setup steps here, I encountered:

$  npx api-extractor run

api-extractor 7.33.7  - https://api-extractor.com/

Using configuration from ./api-extractor.json
Analysis will use the bundled TypeScript version 4.8.4

ERROR: Internal Error: Unable to follow symbol for "const"
You have encountered a software defect. Please consider reporting the issue to the maintainers of this application.

Repro steps

Because this happened on my first ever use of this tool, I haven't tried to make a minimal repro. However, I can point you at the repository that has this error.

Check out the api-extractor-issue branch of this repository, do npm install && npm run build and then run either npm run api-extractor, or npx api-extractor run --local --diagnostics

Expected result: No errors.

Actual result: as above. The end of the error message with --diagnostics is:

/Users/home/office/maintainer/case/node_modules/@types/stack-utils/index.d.ts
/Users/home/office/maintainer/case/node_modules/@types/yargs-parser/index.d.ts
/Users/home/office/maintainer/case/node_modules/@types/yargs/index.d.ts
============================================================

Ignoring reference to global variable "Array" in /Users/home/office/maintainer/case/src/connectors/contract/CaseContract.ts:43:13
Ignoring reference to global variable "Promise" in /Users/home/office/maintainer/case/src/connectors/contract/CaseContract.ts:46:6
Ignoring reference to global variable "Record" in /Users/home/office/maintainer/case/src/connectors/contract/structure/types.ts:6:18

ERROR: Internal Error: Unable to follow symbol for "const"
You have encountered a software defect. Please consider reporting the issue to the maintainers of this application.

As instructed, I am reporting it 😎

Details

• I've tried to pin the typescript version to 4.8.4, but it didn't help (originally I was using 4.8.3).
• It's possible that the autogenerated config file from api-extractor init is not right - for example, I had to change the /lib/ to /dist/. It would be awesome if the init would parse the tsconfig and set that setting (and any others) appropriately. I had a skim read of the settings, but couldn't see anything obviously wrong.
• As far as I know, my tsconfig is set up correctly, and I'm not doing anything weird or advanced with the types. Of course, I might be wrong about this ;)
• It would be an improvement if the error message that asks to report it to the maintainers pointed to this repository - it's not obvious at first that this is the place to report api-extractor issues.

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