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title: MARKLESS_DELEGATE_ARTIFACT_MISSING
description: "Delegate child produced no build-time rendering: a Markless compiler error."
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**Info** from the compiler, while it builds your `.tsrx` files.

## What happened

Markless prints the message, the reason, and a suggestion:

```text
MARKLESS_DELEGATE_ARTIFACT_MISSING: MARKLESS_DELEGATE_ARTIFACT_MISSING: <<componentName>> resolves to <specifier>, which this build did not compile and which handed back no build-time rendering, so the edge stays a runtime import.<cause>
A delegate is materialized from the rendering its own compiled module produced; without one there is nothing to inline.
Publish the dependency with a build-time renderSsr export if its markup should be inlined at build time.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_DELEGATE_ARTIFACT_MISSING
```

Words in angle brackets change from case to case.

## How to fix it

Start with the suggestion in the message above.

This page has no guide yet. [Help write it](/contributing/improve-these-docs).

## Where it comes from

`@markless/compiler` raises this code. Source:

- [packages/compiler/src/passes/link/delegate-children.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/link/delegate-children.ts)

Read [how to read a Markless error](/tooling/diagnostics), or go back to [all error codes](/errors).