Hi, I'm experiencing the following issues when building OpenJFX following https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX inside Ubuntu Docker images `ubuntu:[version]` which are official and as empty as possible. Afaik the build instructions or the supported list of OS is quite old (only Ubuntu LTS version 14.04 and 16.04 are still supported and up-to-date 17.10 and 18.04-daily are left out of the picture). My motivation here is to improve the build process of OpenJFX, but not only me alone. You might have you own CI, but in case you agree that the following are real issues, I can only recommend GitLab CI (your own instance or the one at gitlab.com) which allows to test whether build instructions are working on any docker image you can image and can be used parallel to existing infrastructure. I used it now to allow you to reproduce the issues as easily as possible:
For `ubuntu:14.04` and `ubuntu:16.04` I get: [ant:taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource com/sun/javafx/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found. :apps:appsJarLinux FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Build file '/builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/build.gradle' line: 3241 * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':apps:appsJarLinux'. > The following error occurred while executing this line: /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/apps/samples/build.xml:14: The following error occurred while executing this line: /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/apps/samples/Ensemble8/build.xml:158: Problem: failed to create task or type javafx:com.sun.javafx.tools.ant:application Cause: The name is undefined. Action: Check the spelling. Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared. Action: Check that any <presetdef>/<macrodef> declarations have taken place. No types or tasks have been defined in this namespace yet For `ubuntu:17.10` and `ubuntu:18.04` I get: :fxpackager:compileLinuxLibrary/builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/LinuxPlatform.cpp:130:9: warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix] "jre/lib/"JAVAARCH"/client/libjvm.so"; ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/LinuxPlatform.cpp:134:13: warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix] "jre/lib/"JAVAARCH"/server/libjvm.so"; ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/LinuxPlatform.cpp:139:13: warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix] "lib/"JAVAARCH"/server/libjvm.so"; ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/LinuxPlatform.cpp:144:13: warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix] "lib/"JAVAARCH"/server/libjvm.so"; ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/LinuxPlatform.cpp:189:16: warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix] _T("/lib/"JAVAARCH"/client/libjvm.so"); ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/LinuxPlatform.cpp:193:20: warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix] _T("/lib/"JAVAARCH"/server/libjvm.so"); ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/PosixPlatform.cpp: In member function 'virtual bool PosixProcess::Wait()': /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/PosixPlatform.cpp:235:5: error: 'wait' was not declared in this scope wait(); ^~~~ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/PosixPlatform.cpp:235:5: note: suggested alternative: 'Wait' wait(); ^~~~ Wait /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/Java.cpp: In destructor 'JavaClass::~JavaClass()': /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/Java.cpp:237:46: warning: throw will always call terminate() [-Wterminate] throw JavaException(FEnv, _T("Error")); ^ /builds/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/modules/fxpackager/src/main/native/library/common/Java.cpp:237:46: note: in C++11 destructors default to noexcept FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':fxpackager:compileLinuxLibrary'. > Could not call NativeCompileTask.compile() on task ':fxpackager:compileLinuxLibrary' Details and complete build logs can be found at https://gitlab.com/krichter/openjfx-8u-dev-rt/pipelines/14781176. The build script `.gitlab-ci.yml` contains the commands used to build. -Kalle