[Android] Build failed in GradleRunner step with NDK error (not used)

[itelios.team-mobile]

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Description of the issue

Build for Release (classic signed APK) on my Android projects does not work anymore since May. There is an error in step Gradle-Runner (up to date) : :app:transformNativeLibsWithStripDebugSymbolForProdRelease FAILED

Environment:

Where did the issue happen?

Stack: Android & Docker on Ubuntu 16.04

Which build Step causes the issue and which version of the step?

gradle-runner@1.8.3 (exit code: 1)

Reproducibility

• Does a “Rebuild” help? (You can trigger a rebuild from the Build’s page, by clicking the “Rebuild” button in the top right corner of a finished build) : NO
• Does a rebuild without caches help? (You can remove the Cache:Pull and Cache:Push steps temporarily to not to use the cache, or you can delete all the caches on the Settings tab of the app. : NO
• Does the issue happen sporadically, or every time? : EVERY TIME
• Does upgrading the build Step to the latest version help? : NO
• When did the issue start? : Detected today (May 14th). Was working until end of april.

Local reproduction

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Local reproduction: Linux / Android (docker based) stack builds

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Build log

Bitrise - Mobile Continuous Integration and Delivery

[rohitbaghela]

is there any solution to solve this problem?
because facing same issue.

[prochnow_curamatik]

I have same issue. An identical configuration worked on May 9th. Does somebody have a workaround because this blocks my work.

[koral]

One of the solutions is to update Android Gradle plugin version. At least 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2' works.

[rohitbaghela]

after upgrading its working for you?

[koral]

Yes, it works. At least for errors involving missing armeabi and mips toolchains.

[rohitbaghela]

yup i tried but still facing same error
Execution failed for task ‘:presentation:transformNativeLibsWithStripDebugSymbolForEdCastAppDebug’.

A problem occurred starting process ‘command ‘/opt/android-ndk/toolchains/mips64el-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/mips64el-linux-android-strip’’

[koral]

Hard to say more for me since I have no access to logs.
After upgrading I’ve got this note instead of error:
Unable to strip library '/bitrise/src/app/build/intermediates/transforms/mergeJniLibs/<stripped>/<stripped>/0/lib/mips64/lib<stripped>.so' due to missing strip tool for ABI 'MIPS64'. Packaging it as is.
Task does not fail on mips library but just keeps it untouched.

[viktorbenei]

Issue seems to be related to the Android NDK version upgrade which we rolled out this weekend (from r16b to r17):

Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack updates - 2018.05.12

Highlights Android/Linux stacks Latest: NDK updated to r17 (thanks @koral ) Official Android NDK changelog: Changelog r17 · android/ndk Wiki · GitHub Xcode stacks No significant change Visual Studio for Mac stacks Stable channel: Xamarin Blog - An open source mobile platform for building Android, iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps with .NET. Beta channel: Xamarin Blog - An open source mobile platform for building Android, iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps with .NET. …

Related system report changelog : Weekly VM updates by ghaabor · Pull Request #212 · bitrise-io/bitrise.io · GitHub

Quick question @itelios.team-mobile - did you upgrade the Android NDK on your own Mac/PC to r17?
If you’re not using r17 yet or if you want to use a specific NDK version the best is to just install it via a Script step:

How to install a specific Android NDK version on the Android/Linux stack

If the NDK version which is preinstalled on the Android stack is not the one you want to use, you can install any version via a Script step. Simply add a Script step as the very first step in the workflow, with the following content: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -ex # set env vars export ANDROID_NDK_VERSION='r15b' export ANDROID_NDK_HOME='/opt/android-ndk' # expose for subsequent steps envman add --key ANDROID_NDK_HOME --value "$ANDROID_NDK_HOME" # -----------------------------------------------…

[koral]

If NDK is not used at all (as I guess from the title suffix “(not used)”) even unsetting ANDROID_NDK_HOME (or setting it to empty string) should do the trick.

[itelios.team-mobile]

We have not indeed updated the NDK as we don’t use it for our apps.

And thank you very much for the solution, it is now resolved!

[ThirumuruganDevaraja]

Hi, I am getting the same error

A problem occurred starting process ‘command ‘/opt/android-ndk/toolchains/mipsel-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/mipsel-linux-android-strip’’

I am running on same stack Android & Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 & gradle runner 1.5.2

Caused by: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: A problem occurred starting process ‘command ‘/opt/android-ndk/toolchains/mipsel-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/mipsel-linux-android-strip’’
at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle.setEndStateInfo(DefaultExecHandle.java:197)
at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle.failed(DefaultExecHandle.java:327)
at org.gradle.process.internal.ExecHandleRunner.run(ExecHandleRunner.java:86)
at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:54)
at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(StoppableExecutorImpl.java:40)
Caused by: net.rubygrapefruit.platform.NativeException: Could not start ‘/opt/android-ndk/toolchains/mipsel-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/mipsel-linux-android-strip’
at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.DefaultProcessLauncher.start(DefaultProcessLauncher.java:27)
at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.WrapperProcessLauncher.start(WrapperProcessLauncher.java:36)
at org.gradle.process.internal.ExecHandleRunner.run(ExecHandleRunner.java:68)
… 2 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program “/opt/android-ndk/toolchains/mipsel-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/mipsel-linux-android-strip” (in directory “/bitrise/src/app”): error=2, No such file or directory
at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.DefaultProcessLauncher.start(DefaultProcessLauncher.java:25)
… 4 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

[LackoDan]

Thanks for this. We were also not using the NDK, so I modified the step where gradle is run (in our case a Script) to:

#!/bin/bash

unset ANDROID_NDK_HOME
cd android 
./gradlew clean assembleRelease

And now our (React Native) app builds again. Awesome!

[jt-gilkeson]

We were having the same issue - we don’t use the NDK and now our previously working build not longer builds…

Easy fix seems to be to set ANDROID_NDK_HOME to nothing in the “$ ENV Vars” tab for your bitrise workflow

[viktorbenei]

Note: Official Android NDK changelog: Changelog r17 · android/ndk Wiki · GitHub

Support for ARMv5 (armeabi), MIPS, and MIPS64 has been removed. Attempting to build any of these ABIs will result in an error.

Another interesting deprecation note:

Support for ICS (android-14 and android-15) will be removed from r18.