The first error was complaining about this class from Kafka clients: clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/utils/Timer.java
It seems you haven't installed kafka clients jar into local maven repo. You can run the following command under kafka working dir: ./gradlew installAll I just built schema-registry successfully (by first installing common and rest-utils) FYI On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:30 AM Simon Nunn <simon.n...@bluestaq.com> wrote: > > Getting the following error when trying to build the schema registry. I > have tried various versions of kafka, but not sure what I need to do. Any > help would be appreciated. > > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.6.1:compile > (default-compile) on project kafka-schema-registry: Compilation failure: > Compilation failure: > [ERROR] > /C:/projects/schema-registry/core/src/main/java/io/confluent/kafka/schemaregistry/masterelector/kafka/SchemaRegistryCoordinator.java:[25,37] > cannot find symbol > [ERROR] symbol: class Timer > [ERROR] location: package org.apache.kafka.common.utils > [ERROR] > /C:/projects/schema-registry/core/src/main/java/io/confluent/kafka/schemaregistry/masterelector/kafka/SchemaRegistryCoordinator.java:[207,57] > cannot find symbol > [ERROR] symbol: class Timer > [ERROR] location: class > io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.masterelector.kafka.SchemaRegistryCoordinator > [ERROR] > /C:/projects/schema-registry/core/src/main/java/io/confluent/kafka/schemaregistry/masterelector/kafka/SchemaRegistryCoordinator.java:[98,36] > cannot find symbol > [ERROR] symbol: method timer(long) > [ERROR] location: variable time of type > org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Time > [ERROR] > /C:/projects/schema-registry/core/src/main/java/io/confluent/kafka/schemaregistry/masterelector/kafka/SchemaRegistryCoordinator.java:[114,23] > cannot find symbol > [ERROR] symbol: method timer(long) > [ERROR] location: variable time of type > org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Time > [ERROR] -> [Help 1] >