Getting 'FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.'

[ncherry]

I was successful in cloning the DriverWireServer and then decide to follow the Readme when I ran into this:

$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
...
$ gradle clean build fatCapsule

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/njc/dev/git/DriveWireServer/build.gradle' line: 1

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'DriveWireServer'.
> Could not find method plugins() for arguments [build_fu6qpuj0dlvij0ah77q0ihogm$_run_closure1@68befcba] on root project 'DriveWireServer'.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 3.781 secs
$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_181"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.14) (7u181-2.6.14-1~deb8u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.181-b01, mixed mode)

Since I also had Oracle Java 1.8.0 131 installed (in /usr/local/jdk1.8.0_131, I amended the path to put that Java first:

export PATH=/usr/local/jdk1.8.0_131/bin:$PATH

Work around:

I know this may not be the best way to setup Java under Linux but it does work under all Unix distributions. I'll try a later version of Java also. I think I'm a bit out-of-date

[cognitivegears]

The build will require Java JVM 8+. Based on some planned features that will require Java 8, I decided to go ahead and make the change now. Based on the above feedback, I changed the build script which should return a more specific error. If possible can you please re-try it with your Java 1.7 and let me know whether that provides a better error message? I also went ahead and updated the README to be more explicit about checking java versions before running the build.

[ncherry]

I ran the commands in a script so you see what I have. Here's what I see now (ran a shell script with bash -x script, this is the output):

`+ java -version
java version "1.7.0_181"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.14) (7u181-2.6.14-1~deb8u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.181-b01, mixed mode)

• javac -version
  javac 1.7.0_181
• gradle -version

---

Gradle 1.5

Gradle build time: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:21:39 AM UTC
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on July 18 2018
Ivy: non official version
JVM: 1.7.0_181 (Oracle Corporation 24.181-b01)
OS: Linux 3.16.0-6-amd64 amd64`

And here's the gradle command :

`+ gradle clean build fatCapsule

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file '/home/njc/dev/git/DriveWireServer/build.gradle' line: 1

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating root project 'DriveWireServer'.

Could not find method plugins() for arguments [build_fu6qpuj0dlvij0ah77q0ihogm$_run_closure1@160afa0d] on root project 'DriveWireServer'.

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 1.507 secs`

Not seeing something that would suggest a version problem. Though the readme is pretty clear on that.

[ncherry]

Wow, markdown fail and I have no idea why this is closed (I didn't select anything to close it)

[cognitivegears]

Did you update your project to the latest version before trying again? I tried this with a java 1.7 version and did not get the same error anymore. Try running:

git pull

Before running the gradle clean build fatCapsule command. If not try running with the --stacktrace option and provide the output.