Problems with gradle

[Kevin Rushforth]

No, we require Visual Studio 2010 to build on Windows. Please see:

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX

-- Kevin


João Carlos wrote:
> I haven't installed VS2010. I installed gcc 64-bit through cygwin 
> 64-bit. Shouldn't that work?
>  
>  
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2014 at 12:01 PM
> *From:* "Kevin Rushforth" <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
> *To:* "João Carlos" <ttilt at technologist.com>, 
> "openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net" <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> *Subject:* Re: Problems with gradle
>
> [copying the openjfx-dev mailing list]
>
> Are you using VisualStudio 2010 Express? I believe that only supports
> 32-bit builds, so that could be your issue, in which case using the
> 32-bit JDK should resolve your problem. You may have to manually clean
> your repo by removing at least the following:
>
> rm -rf build buildSrc/build
>
> Failing that, I recommend to run with "gradle --info --stacktrace" and
> see if that gives you more information.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
>
> > Wow, sorry I prepared the msg and forgot to paste it here.. haha
> >
> > Here's the elaboration:
> >
> > I'm having problems with gradle task :graphics:compileDecoraHLSLShaders
> >
> > 01:10:00.026 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] FAILURE:
> > Build failed with an exception.
> > 01:10:00.034 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]
> > 01:10:00.039 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * What went
> > wrong:
> > 01:10:00.046 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Execution
> > failed for task ':graphics:compileDecoraHLSLShaders'.
> > 01:10:00.051 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] > Could not
> > call NativeCompileTask.compile() on task
> > ':graphics:compileDecoraHLSLShaders'
> > 01:10:00.056 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]
> > 01:10:00.061 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * Exception is:
> > 01:10:00.068 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]
> > org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task
> > ':graphics:compileDecoraHLSLShad
> > ers'.
> >
> > The original causing exception is:
> >
> > 01:10:00.407 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Caused by:
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > 01:10:00.411 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] at
> > 
> org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultProcessForkOptions.getActualEnvironment(DefaultProcessFork
> > Options.java:75)
> >
> >
> > Tried it w/ gradle 1.8 and 2.1. Same problem in both. I'm building w/
> > jdk 1.8.0_20 64-bits. Maybe that's the problem?
> >
> > PS.: Personally I think using gradle is introducing unnecessary
> > complexity in the build process.. Better to use a simpler tech like
> > ant (which should also work for native code) or make, like the rest of
> > the OpenJDK.
> >
> > Tks,
> > JC
> >
>
>