I want to make some changes to the GWT compiler. I downloaded the source code and built the package using the following instructions:
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/makinggwtbetter#compiling After that i configured Google Web Toolkit in Eclipse to be the generated directory. Now when i am trying to build my project i receive the following exception: Compiling module com.autodesk.autocadws.gwt.platform.app.gwtguidemo.GGDemoAppChrome [ERROR] An internal compiler exception occurred com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.InternalCompilerException: Error constructing Java AST at com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.GwtAstBuilder.translateException(GwtAstBuilder.java:2989) at com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.GwtAstBuilder$AstVisitor.endVisit(GwtAstBuilder.java:1328) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.SingleNameReference.traverse(SingleNameReference.java:888) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.SwitchStatement.traverse(SwitchStatement.java:376) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.MethodDeclaration.traverse(MethodDeclaration.java:239) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.traverse(TypeDeclaration.java:1239) at com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.GwtAstBuilder.process(GwtAstBuilder.java:2948) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder$CompileMoreLater$UnitProcessorImpl.process(CompilationStateBuilder.java:124) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.JdtCompiler$CompilerImpl.process(JdtCompiler.java:247) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:444) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.JdtCompiler.doCompile(JdtCompiler.java:718) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder$CompileMoreLater.compile(CompilationStateBuilder.java:248) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.doBuildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:463) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.buildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:388) at com.google.gwt.dev.cfg.ModuleDef.getCompilationState(ModuleDef.java:373) at com.google.gwt.dev.Precompile.precompile(Precompile.java:246) at com.google.gwt.dev.Precompile.precompile(Precompile.java:229) at com.google.gwt.dev.Precompile.precompile(Precompile.java:141) at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler.run(Compiler.java:232) at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler.run(Compiler.java:198) at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler$1.run(Compiler.java:170) at com.google.gwt.dev.CompileTaskRunner.doRun(CompileTaskRunner.java:88) at com.google.gwt.dev.CompileTaskRunner.runWithAppropriateLogger(CompileTaskRunner.java:82) at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler.main(Compiler.java:177) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.GwtAstBuilder$AstVisitor.makeThisReference(GwtAstBuilder.java:2208) at com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.GwtAstBuilder$AstVisitor.resolveNameReference(GwtAstBuilder.java:2620) at com.google.gwt.dev.jjs.impl.GwtAstBuilder$AstVisitor.endVisit(GwtAstBuilder.java:1317) ... 22 more [ERROR] at ClosestPointToDrawnShapeBucketFinder.java(41): shapeType org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.SingleNameReference I can't figure out what is the problem. Can you help me? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/gHp72Cm1bwQJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.