Copying Laravel source WARN robocopy failed with exit code 16.

[t-prod]

Hi,

On Windows, I try to build an APK from my Laravel APP but I have this error :

Copying Laravel source WARN robocopy failed with exit code 16.
The laravel bundle is not complete and the APK is still generated but with this error at start :

Warning: Unknown: Failed to open stram : No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 Fatal error: Failed opening required
'/data/user/0/com.makingdigital.iptv/app_storage/laravel ...
(include_path='.:' in Unknow on line 0

Package concerned nativephp/mobile 3.x

Any ideas ?

[lrakauskas]

Having same issue, it doesn't seem to copy laravel_bundle.zip to temp folder. code 16 suggest permission issue but all users/groups on windows have full access to temp folder. Ran simple code to test it from same cmd where I run php native run - php -r "mkdir('C:\\temp\\test'); file_put_contents('C:\\temp\\test\\test.txt','ok'); echo 'ok';" and it created files just fine.

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  Updating Android configuration ......................................................................... 9.86ms DONE
  Copying Laravel source

   WARN  robocopy failed with exit code 16.

................................................................................ 33.86ms DONE
  Installing Composer dependencies ..................................................................... 213.71ms DONE
  Optimizing autoloader ................................................................................ 217.08ms DONE
  Creating bundle archive ............................................................................... 37.80ms DONE
  Bundle size ................................................................................................... 0 MB

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Android log

[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Source: C:\Users\lukas\development\cartographers-app
[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Destination: C:\Users\lukas\development\cartographers-app\nativephp/android/app/src/main/assets/laravel_bundle.zip
[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Temp directory: C:\temp\1770721182
[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Removing existing bundle zip...
[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Excluded directories: build, temp, content, node_modules, */tests, .git, node_modules, nativephp, vendor/nativephp/mobile/resources
[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Copying Laravel source...
[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Installing Composer dependencies...
[2026-02-10 10:59:42] 
[2026-02-10 10:59:42] Composer could not find a composer.json file in C:\temp\1770721182
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file. See https://getcomposer.org/basic-usage

[2026-02-10 10:59:42]   Optimizing autoloader...
[2026-02-10 10:59:42] 
[2026-02-10 10:59:42] Composer could not find a composer.json file in C:\temp\1770721182
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file. See https://getcomposer.org/basic-usage

[lrakauskas]

I've actually managed to resolve this. It was down to having old config/nativephp.php from v1, which had

    'cleanup_exclude_files' => [
        'build',
        'temp',
        'content',
        'node_modules',
        '*/tests',
    ],

but wildcard * is not supported by Windows robocopy. You can remove/modify */tests and it will work fine.

In general, whole nativephp config changed massively in v3, so I suggest for anyone reading this to republish nativephp config files.
php artisan vendor:publish