Puro dart commands fail and dart unable to detect Flutter SDK

[Vonarian]

puro dart run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs                                                                  255 ✘  11:26:09 
Resolving dependencies in `/Users/vonar/PetaProc/joow/frontend`... 
Because joow depends on flutter_test from sdk which doesn't exist (the Flutter SDK is not available), version solving failed.

Flutter users should use `flutter pub` instead of `dart pub`.

The issue rrousselGit/riverpod#4416 is not due to dot-shorthands or generators, but how the dart executable "detects" things in 3.38.1 (Latest Flutter Stable as of now with Dart 3.10.0).

Using flutter pub works fine, while dart pub and dart run fail, even puro dart run fails.
prefs.json:

{
  "defaultEnvironment": "lts",
  "lastUpdateCheck": "2025-11-17T10:29:59.210931",
  "legacyPubCache": false
}

A puro reinstall, an envs reinstall, puro gc, modifying dart and flutter scripts, none of them help

[Vonarian]

With log-level=4:

puro --log-level=4 dart run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs                               255 ✘  11:40:43 
[D] envPuroRoot: /Users/vonar/.puro
[D] binPuroRoot: null
[D] firstRun: false
[D] legacyPubCache: null
[V] Started waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/prefs.json
[V] Waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/prefs.json took 1ms
[D] puroRootDir: LocalDirectory: '/Users/vonar/.puro'
[D] puroRoot (resolved): LocalDirectory: '/Users/vonar/.puro'
[D] PURO_FLUTTER_BIN: null
[D] target: PuroBuildTarget.macosX64
[D] Platform.executable: puro
[D] Platform.resolvedExecutable: /Users/vonar/.puro/bin/puro
[D] Platform.script: file:///Users/vonar/PetaProc/joow/frontend/puro
[D] Platform.packageConfig: null
[D] No package root: Platform.packageConfig is null
[D] packageRoot: null
[D] executablePath: /Users/vonar/.puro/bin/puro
[D] scriptPath: /Users/vonar/.puro/bin/puro
[D] scriptExtension: 
[D] installationType: PuroInstallationType.distribution
[D] version: 1.4.11
[V] Checking if update is available
[V] Started waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/latest_version
[V] Waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/latest_version took 0ms
[D] lastNotification: null
[D] latestVersion: 1.4.11
[D] isOutOfDate: false
[D] willNotify: false
[D] shouldVersionCheck: false
[D] lastVersionCheck: 2025-11-17 10:29:59.210931
[V] Started waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/prefs.json
[V] Waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/prefs.json took 0ms
[D] [git 31438] /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter> git show HEAD:bin/internal/engine.version
[D] [git 31438] finished with exit code 0 in 46ms
[D] flutterCache.engineVersion: b5990e5ccc5e325fd24f0746e7d6689bbebc7c65
[D] flutterConfig.engineVersion: b5990e5ccc5e325fd24f0746e7d6689bbebc7c65
[V] Started waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/update.lock
[V] Waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/update.lock took 0ms
[D] [git 31442] /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter> git rev-parse HEAD
[D] git: b45fa18946ecc2d9b4009952c636ba7e2ffbb787
[D] [git 31442] finished with exit code 0 in 39ms
[D] flutterCommit: b45fa18946ecc2d9b4009952c636ba7e2ffbb787
[V] Started waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/update.lock
[V] Waiting for lock on /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/update.lock took 0ms
[V] Setting up dart took 89ms
[D] > sysctl -n hw.optional.arm64
[D] sysctl finished in 30ms
[D] sysctl: 1
    
[D] querying arch of /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart
[D] > file /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart
[D] file finished in 16ms
[D] file: /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
    
[D] file result: /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
    
[D] [arch 31445] > /usr/bin/arch -arch arm64 /Users/vonar/.puro/envs/lts/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs
Resolving dependencies in `/Users/vonar/PetaProc/joow/frontend`... 
Because joow depends on flutter_test from sdk which doesn't exist (the Flutter SDK is not available), version solving failed.

Flutter users should use `flutter pub` instead of `dart pub`.

[D] [arch 31445] finished with exit code 255 in 54ms

[DarkHeros09]

same issue, honestly i though i was the only one having this issue, i reverted back to 3.35.7.

[FMorschel]

@pingbird, noting that the team is planning on removing pub run, so this would be even more important:

• Remove pub run dart-lang/pub#4737