Setting up Android build on Linux (Process 'command '/opt/openfl/android-sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt'' finished with non-zero exit value 1)

[miriti]

This is at least the third time I’m trying to setup Android build on my linux machine This time I got really far. I’ve managed to make it to compile the code and run the build process… But then I get this:

:app:processDebugResources FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.
> com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/opt/openfl/android-sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

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

BUILD FAILED

I’ve checked the permissions on the /opt/openfl/android-sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt executable and it seems correct (execution is allowed. In fact I’ve set 0777 on the whole android-sdk directory).

What can I do next? How to debug it? Where can I try these --stacktrace and --debug options?

[Vega]

Could it be that you are on a 32bit machine?

The “–stracktrace” references the gradle build command just a bit earlier in the output.
Change into /Export/android/release/bin folder and run “./gradlew assembleDebug --stacktrace”

[miriti]

Ok, I’ve found the problem.
First of all thanks to @Vega. Running gradlew with --stacktrace option helped to see the output of the aapt programm. So the problem was in a dash ("-") symbol in the package name which isn’t allowed (I didn’t know that). I’ve removed the symbol and finally could build the apk!

[Bongani]

@miriti , Which package name are you referring to?

I am also experiencing the same problem and i am trying to understand your solution so i can implement it.

[miriti]

Hi! The one in your project.xml file in <meta> tag

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<project>
  <meta
    title="Five Hearts"
    package="com.michaelmiriti.fivehearts" <!-- This one! -->
    version="0.1.2"
    company="Michael Miriti" />

[Bongani]

@miriti @Vega, That’s not the case with mine because it doesn’t have any dash in it,

Are there any other solutions you know of ?
I have searched my way through and nothing works.

[miriti]

Have you tried running gradlew with the --stacktrace option as @Vega suggested? What’s the output?

[Bongani]

Yes, please see below

:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:preDebugBuild UP-TO-DATE
:compileDebugNdk UP-TO-DATE
:checkDebugManifest
:prepareDebugDependencies
:compileDebugAidl UP-TO-DATE
:compileDebugRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
:generateDebugBuildConfig UP-TO-DATE
:generateDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:mergeDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
:generateDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:mergeDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:processDebugManifest UP-TO-DATE
:processDebugResources FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ‘:processDebugResources’.

com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process ‘command ‘/home/user/Android/Sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt’’ finished with non-zero exit value 139

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

• Exception is:
  org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ‘:processDebugResources’.
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:69)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:46)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:35)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:64)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:58)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:42)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:53)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.executeWithoutThrowingTaskFailure(AbstractTask.java:305)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.executeTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:79)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:63)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:51)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.process(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:23)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:88)
  at org.gradle.execution.SelectedTaskExecutionAction.execute(SelectedTaskExecutionAction.java:29)
  at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:62)
  at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.access$200(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:23)
  at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter$2.proceed(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:68)
  at org.gradle.execution.DryRunBuildExecutionAction.execute(DryRunBuildExecutionAction.java:32)
  at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:62)
  at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:55)
  at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:149)
  at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:106)
  at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:86)
  at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:80)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:33)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:24)
  at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:36)
  at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:26)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:51)
  at org.gradle.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:171)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:237)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:210)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:35)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:24)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:206)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:169)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33)
  at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22)
  at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:33)
  at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)
  at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:54)
  at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:35)
  at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23)
  at org.gradle.wrapper.BootstrapMainStarter.start(BootstrapMainStarter.java:33)
  at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:130)
  at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:48)
  Caused by: org.gradle.internal.UncheckedException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process ‘command ‘/home/user/Android/Sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt’’ finished with non-zero exit value 139
  at org.gradle.internal.UncheckedException.throwAsUncheckedException(UncheckedException.java:39)
  at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:66)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$IncrementalTaskAction.doExecute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:235)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:211)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$IncrementalTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:222)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:200)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:80)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:61)
  … 47 more
  Caused by: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process ‘command ‘/home/user/Android/Sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt’’ finished with non-zero exit value 139
  at com.android.build.gradle.internal.process.GradleProcessResult.assertNormalExitValue(GradleProcessResult.java:42)
  at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder.processResources(AndroidBuilder.java:777)
  at com.android.builder.core.AndroidBuilder$processResources$0.call(Unknown Source)
  at com.android.build.gradle.tasks.ProcessAndroidResources.doFullTaskAction(ProcessAndroidResources.groovy:145)
  at com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.IncrementalTask.taskAction(IncrementalTask.groovy:64)
  at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:63)
  … 53 more
  Caused by: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process ‘command ‘/home/user/Android/Sdk/build-tools/24.0.1/aapt’’ finished with non-zero exit value 139
  at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle$ExecResultImpl.assertNormalExitValue(DefaultExecHandle.java:365)
  at com.android.build.gradle.internal.process.GradleProcessResult.assertNormalExitValue(GradleProcessResult.java:40)

[Bongani]

I solved it by upgrading to Android Build tools 25.0.1