Comments on Michael Imhoff: Internal Build Error

This happened to me when I referenced the parentAp...

2010-05-21T05:11:42.477-04:00

This happened to me when I referenced the parentApplication in a "global" variable:

private var something:Boolean = parentApplication.etc.etc;

Doh.

I had my CSS file included like this: mx:Script so...

2010-04-12T07:50:53.606-04:00

I had my CSS file included like this:
mx:Script source=somefile.css

There was an invalid colour code used; #5 in stead of the #555555 that meant to be there.

Removing this solved my mysterious "Internal build" error.

Hey Also watch out for public static var someVar...

2010-03-29T22:51:07.751-04:00

Hey Also watch out for

public static var someVar:String = SomeObject.SOME_CONST = SomeObject.SOME_CONST;

this took me 1hour to freaking figure out

this is the stack in the eclipse log

!MESSAGE TextFileBufferManager failed to notify an ITextFileBufferListener
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at de.richinternet.flexbuilder.task.FlexDocumentListener.removeMarkers(FlexDocumentListener.java:204)
at de.richinternet.flexbuilder.task.FlexDocumentListener.processDocument(FlexDocumentListener.java:125)

Thanks! Here's another cause of this: a return...

2010-02-18T18:11:37.213-05:00

Thanks! Here's another cause of this: a return statement within an if statement followed by some executable code:

if {
return;
...some other code...
}

Mine is: Flash Builder 4 Beta 2: java.lang.NullP...

2010-02-11T15:12:25.925-05:00

Mine is:

Flash Builder 4 Beta 2:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at flex2.compiler.as3.binding.TypeAnalyzer.analyzeClass(TypeAnalyzer.java:169)
at flex2.compiler.as3.binding.TypeAnalyzer.analyzeBaseClass(TypeAnalyzer.java:140)

No luck yet... I'll post the results once I figure it out.

Mine was the same as Karfau's, except it was c...

2009-11-06T13:46:52.250-05:00

Mine was the same as Karfau's, except it was caused not by bad data in the properties file, but by using a very large (>180 Kb) file. I solved the problem by deleting a bunch of entries that were no longer needed.

Thanks Michael and Karfau -- you saved me a lot of time and a BIG headache!

I traced my error back to an internal namespace co...

2009-10-16T06:13:35.671-04:00

I traced my error back to an internal namespace conflict from an SWC (I named a movie clip "mask")

Mine was an empty switch statement; switch(asdf) ...

2009-10-15T18:16:49.668-04:00

Mine was an empty switch statement;

switch(asdf) {
/*
case 1: ...
case 2: ...
*/
}

I had the same error - upon inspecting the log fil...

2009-08-31T12:14:46.006-04:00

I had the same error - upon inspecting the log file I found that Flex choked because the directory 'bin-release/assets' did not exist. When I exported the release build to something other than 'bin-relase', it worked! Adobe really needs to get on top of these bugs...

Thanks!!!!!!!!!! Mine seemed to barf on an extern...

2009-07-22T18:13:55.859-04:00

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

Mine seemed to barf on an external XML file.

Another source for this bloody error: I had a prop...

2009-07-22T11:19:44.502-04:00

Another source for this bloody error:
I had a properties-file wich I created in ANSI format. it didn't metter what I tried to change the format: the error stayed.

The Message from the log:
!MESSAGE Uncaught exception in compiler
!STACK 0
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 1

How I found out wich file it was:
deleting/reverting with help of svn (this was such a bad time)

My soloution:
-Opening the file in editor
-copy another prop-file paste it with the name of the broken file and
-type everything from the editor (copy didn't work for me) in the newly created file

Here's another syntax error that leads to an uncau...

2009-03-06T17:45:00.000-05:00

Here's another syntax error that leads to an uncaught compiler error. If you look in the log (which you can find if you right-click on the error message in the "Problems" window of the Flex Builder and follow the instructions), you will see the message

java.lang.NumberFormatException: multiple points

the offending code is

public var springFriction:Numner = 0.5.

Now that's a syntax error the compiler definitely should have caught! Too bad I had to rip apart my project to find it.

Thanks for making this thread a google-able repository of stupid Flex compiler bugs, you're saving people a lot of time.

This is so informative a post that I have bookmark...

2008-07-30T09:58:00.000-04:00

This is so informative a post that I have bookmarked it in my firefox.

Also, sometimes creating the 'bin' folder is important as Flex 3 compiler doesn't check if it is already present or not. It assumes that 'bin' folder would already be magically there.

You can also get this error by creating switch() {...

2008-06-04T05:55:00.000-04:00

You can also get this error by creating switch() {} statement without any case ... break construction inside it. Just've found this issue. Thanks for your very helpful posting!

I also had the error saying "An internal build err...

2008-01-23T06:15:00.000-05:00

I also had the error saying "An internal build error has occurred. Please check the Error Log."
I did all the painful debugging of the code.
I edited a mxml and the above problem start coming. But then i copied the contents of the mxml file on to a notepad. i deleted all .html , .swf and also the dubug file relevant to aboce mxml. Then i took the new mxml file and copied the contents of the notepad.
The file ran finely.
Try to do this. It may help you people

Have a good day

the missing semi colons are probably on a line bef...

2008-01-11T11:20:00.000-05:00

the missing semi colons are probably on a line before a metatag

eg

private var _myVar:String

[Bindleable]

otherwise the compiler thinks the [] belong to the prievious line

nice post! my error was caused by improperly comme...

2007-12-28T12:27:00.000-05:00

nice post! my error was caused by improperly commenting out a line in an overridden puremvc function.

Just like Jules, I wanted to locate the log file -...

2007-12-07T10:48:00.000-05:00

Just like Jules, I wanted to locate the log file - soooo glad you mentioned where it is - thanks!!

Googling the "An internal error..." message is what got me to this page.

Excellent!!!
The offending snippet was
priva...

2007-11-14T10:11:00.000-05:00

Excellent!!!
The offending snippet was
private var o : Object = (data='A',label="A");

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the tip - I was searching everywhere fo...

2007-11-08T01:52:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the tip - I was searching everywhere for that log file!

It turns out, in my case anyway, that the internal build error can also happen if you are running eclipse in GCJ instead of sun java.

I added this to my Flex startup script to fix it:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/
PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/:$PATH

Great Article.

Also, I once got this error...

2007-09-11T15:37:00.000-04:00

Great Article.

Also, I once got this error when nesting three if statements. It was the wierdest thing.

Handy post, I needed to find the .log file and did...

2007-07-24T21:39:00.000-04:00

Handy post, I needed to find the .log file and didn't want to trawl the Adobe livedocs/labs knowledge soup.

I just had the same error (Uncaught exception in .log, java.lang.StackOverflowException). It appeared after I'd done some work with sed on my object model. Turned out one of the classes extended itself, ie class myClass extends myClass :-)

This was with the Flex 3 Beta.

Cheers
Jules

ps the link to my site goes nowhere yet -- still to come! Let's just say I am in "stealth mode" heh

Great post! You fixed my issue right away! You...

2007-06-19T19:57:00.000-04:00

Great post! You fixed my issue right away! You can't skip a ; before an attribute declaration!

Thanks!
Michael