Re: "Uncaught translation error" when transforming Kawa-compiled classes with dex

[Sonny To <son.c.to@gmail.com>]

try using jdk 1.7
i had strange errors too when i compiled for jdk1.8

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Kay Zheng <l04m33@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Per,
>
> I tried building a simple skeleton Android app against the master
> branch, targeting Android API level 21 (Android 5.0). The compilation
> went well, but there's this ambiguous error when classes are being
> transformed to dex files:
>
>     Uncaught translation error: com.android.dx.cf.code.SimException:
> local variable type mismatch: attempt to set or access a value of type
> int using a local variable of type gnu.mapping.CallContext. This is
> symptomatic of .class transformation tools that ignore local variable
> information.
>
> I don't really understand this error message, but since
> gnu.mapping.CallContext is part of Kawa, I'd try and post it in this
> mailing list.
>
> The source code for the skeleton app is on
> https://github.com/l04m33/KawaAndroidTemplate
>
> And here's how I built Kawa (I didn't install JDK 6, and used OpenJDK
> 8 instead, thus the explicit JAVACFLAGS):
>
>     $ cat rebuild-kawa-latest-android.sh
>     #!/bin/sh
>
>     cd ./Kawa-latest-android
>
>     if [ -f 'Makefile' ]; then
>         make clean
>         make distclean
>     fi
>
>     git checkout -- .
>     git apply ../kawa-javacflags.patch
>
>     ./autogen.sh
>     export JAVACFLAGS="-g -source 1.6 -target 1.6"
>     ./configure
> --with-android=/home/user/android_sdk/platforms/android-21/android.jar
> \
>                 --disable-xquery \
>                 --disable-jemacs \
>                 --with-java-source=6
>     make
>
> And the content of kawa-javacflags.patch:
>
>     $ cat kawa-javacflags.patch
>     diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>     index da9e490..a0df1a3 100644
>     --- a/Makefile.am
>     +++ b/Makefile.am
>     @@ -372,10 +372,10 @@ $(srcdir)/patch-source-list: $(top_srcdir)/configure
>           | sed -e 's|./||' | sort > $@
>
>      kawa/Version.class: kawa/Version.java
>     -   $(JAVAC) -d . $^
>     +   $(JAVAC) -d . $(JAVACFLAGS) $^
>
>      gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.class: gnu/kawa/util/PreProcess.java
>     -   $(JAVAC) -d . $^
>     +   $(JAVAC) -d . $(JAVACFLAGS) $^
>
>      JAVA_PREPROCESS_OPTIONS = @JAVA_SOURCE_SELECTOR@
> $(PREPROCESS_HTTPSERVER) $(PREPROCESS_XML) $(PREPROCESS_JLINE3)
> $(PREPROCESS_AWT)
>
> P.S.: I think this is an separate issue with hairy details, so I made
> a new thread.
>
> Regards,
> Kay Z.