How do Iuse the JDK 1.4 compiler?

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I have

apply plugin: ‘java’

sourceCompatibility = 1.4 targetCompatibility = 1.4

compileJava.options.fork = true compileJava.options.forkOptions.executable = “C:\Program Files (x86)\j2sdk1.4.2_01\bin\javac.exe”

when I “gradle build” I get

[ant:javac] javac: invalid target release: 1.5 [ant:javac] Usage: javac [ant:javac] where possible options include: [ant:javac]

-g

Generate all debugging info … etc

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Thanks

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with --debug I find that the jvm args are:

‘-d’ ‘C:\projects\GasanBatches\Development\Q928108_JDBC_Thin_Upgrade\APXDealLoad\build\classes\main’ ‘-classpath’ ‘C:\projects…\main’ ‘-target’ ‘1.5’ ‘-g’ ‘-source’ ‘1.5’ ‘C:\projects…\xxx.java’

Now if I add:

compileJava.options.compilerArgs = ["-target", “1.4”, “-source”, “1.4”]

the jvm args are:

‘-d’ ‘C:\projects…\main’ ‘-classpath’ ‘C:\projects…\main’ ‘-target’ ‘1.5’ ‘-g’ ‘-target’ ‘1.4’ ‘-source’ ‘1.4’ ‘-source’ ‘1.5’ ‘C:\projects…\xxx.java’

Closer but not quite.

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which gradle version do you use?

running this snippet locally with 1.0-milestone-8a:

sourceCompatibility = 1.4
 targetCompatibility = 1.4
  compileJava.options.fork = true
 compileJava.options.forkOptions.executable = "C:\Program Files (x86)\j2sdk1.4.2_01\bin\javac.exe"

gives me: ‘-d’

‘C:\projects…\main’

‘-classpath’

‘C:\projects…\main’

‘-target’

‘1.4’

‘-g’

‘-target’

‘1.4’

‘-source’

‘1.4’

‘-source’

‘1.4’

‘C:\projects…\xxx.java’ ---------- still duplicate source & target compatibility settings, but at least the right one.

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Hello again, sorry for the misleading post. I’ve mixed up my test folders to reproduce this problem. Can you get rid of the line:

compileJava.options.compilerArgs = ["-target", "1.4", "-source", "1.4"]

and set the source and targetCompatibility only via

sourceCompatibility = 1.4
 targetCompatibility = 1.4

that should do the trick.

regards, René

5

And indeed it does. The problem was that I was setting sourceCompatibility and targetCompatibility for the wrong project in a parent build file. Does a parent build file configuration always override the child configuration ?

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Does a parent build file configuration always override the child configuration ?

No, it doesn’t. To give a better answer, I would need more information about what you were trying to do.