'Laravel - wkhtmltopdf on OS X returning an error

I am using Laravel Snappy as a wrapper for WKHTMLToPDF, to allow my app to generate PDFs. Unfortunately, I am receiving this error:

The exit status code '126' says something went wrong:
stderr: "sh: /audit/vendor/h4cc/wkhtmltopdf-amd64/bin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64: 
cannot execute binary file
"
stdout: ""
command: /audit/vendor/h4cc/wkhtmltopdf-amd64/bin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --lowquality

I installed both 64 bit packages (PDF and Image) through Composer, following these instructions: https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy#wkhtmltopdf-binary-as-composer-dependencies, and I can see the packages have installed within the /vendor/ folder of my app.

If I cd into the PDF directory and run sh ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64, it returns: cannot execute binary file.

Previously, I have run these two commands on the folder to try and stop this error: chmod a+x wkhtmltopdf-amd64 and sudo chmod +x wkhtmltopdf-amd64 - but neither appear to have resolved this issue of executing a binary file.

I am on the latest version of OS X, any help or guidance as to how I can get this working would be hugely appreciated.

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Solution 1:[1]

I'm just now getting set up with the same configuration - MAMP, OSX, Laravel, Snappy.

I found that I had to download the OSX binary from here and install it: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

Once installed, the wkhtmltopdf binary will be in /usr/local/bin

Once installed, be sure you can run the command from Terminal.

Then, in your config/snappy.php file, be sure the 'binary' option is set to the proper path.

After this, mine works fine.

Solution 2:[2]

first of all go to http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html , then download the proper package according to your os . after installing the package do the followings :

in the config/snappy.php file , write the name of the {bin file} which has been installed in /usr/local/bin , which in my case is wkhtmltopdf :

'binary' => '/usr/local/bin/{bin file}'

so :

'binary' => '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf'

Solution 3:[3]

Here is what I did:

I had installed wkhtmltopdf on my Catalina Edition using the dmg installer file. So the "wkhtmltopdf" command works in the terminal. So all I had to do was instead of giving a path in the snappy.php, I simply passed the command name - "wkhtmltopdf".

So my snappy config looks like this:

'pdf' => [
    'enabled' => true,
    'binary'  => 'wkhtmltopdf',
    'timeout' => false,
    'options' => [
        'enable-local-file-access' => true,
        'encoding'      => 'UTF-8'
    ],
    'env'     => [],
],

And now this worked.

Solution 4:[4]

Are you using Homestead? I think some of the binary dependencies are Linux-based and won't work if installed on a Mac. I think!

Solution 5:[5]

  1. Download and install the correct package according to your system here https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

  2. Make sure the binaries are loaded in '/usr/local/bin' directory.

  3. Update your project .env by adding new entry as: WKHTML_PDF_BINARY='/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf'

  4. Make sure the correct binary path is obtained from the project .env file.

You should be able to generate PDF files now.

System:

  • macOS Big Sur
  • PHP 7.4
  • Composer 2
  • wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6

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Solution Source
Solution 1 JR Lawhorne
Solution 2 mre7_a
Solution 3 Isru
Solution 4 trh88
Solution 5 Ruwan Lokubalasooriya

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