Hello Everyone,
I am trying to build MIT App Inventor from source on my MacBook Air (M1, macOS Sonoma) , but I have encountered multiple issues during the setup and compilation process.
1. KeyczarTool.jar Issue Initially error is caused by an invalid or corrupt KeyczarTool.jar file . The build process is failing when trying to generate a keystore using KeyczarTool
2. Fixing the KeyczarTool.jar Issue To resolve this, I manually downloaded the correct version from the GitHub releases page and moved it to the correct directory:
mv ~/Downloads/keyczar-Java_release_0.71j.zip /Users/nayakdivyanshu/Desktop/appinventor-sources/appinventor/lib/keyczar/
BlocklyCompileAfter fixing the KeyczarTool issue, I started compiling the project using:
ant -Dskip.ios=true
However, the compilation stuck indefinitely at the following step:
BlocklyCompile:
I waited for over 15 minutes , but it did not proceed further.
If anyone has encountered this issue before or knows a potential fix, I would really appreciate your help!
Thanks in advance!
Some of us have M1 and some have M3, so I'm not sure what the issue is here. There should be no reason for the KeyczarTool to be considered corrupt. What's the specific error message you are seeing?
Now the log look like this:
Keystore:
[echo] Using KeyczarTool to generate keystore
[mkdir] Created dir: /Users/nayakdivyanshu/Desktop/appinventor-sources/appinventor/appengine/build/war/WEB-INF/keystore
[java] Error: Unable to access jarfile /Users/nayakdivyanshu/Desktop/appinventor-sources/appinventor/lib/keyczar/KeyczarTool.jar
BUILD FAILED
/Users/nayakdivyanshu/Desktop/appinventor-sources/appinventor/build.xml:16: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/nayakdivyanshu/Desktop/appinventor-sources/appinventor/appengine/build.xml:251: Java returned: 1
Total time: 28 minutes 33 seconds
nayakdivyanshu@NAYAKs-Air appinventor %
@ewpatton , I recently upgraded the Google Cloud SDK . Could that be causing the issue?
nayakdivyanshu@NAYAKs-Air appinventor % gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 509.0.0
app-engine-java 2.0.32
app-engine-python 1.9.114
bq 2.1.12
cloud-datastore-emulator 2.3.1
core 2025.01.31
gcloud-crc32c 1.0.0
gsutil 5.33
No, Google Cloud SDK doesn't come into play until you try to run the server.
What is the output of ant -diagnostics? If you're getting Keyczar errors my guess is that it's showing a version of Java > 11.
nayakdivyanshu@NAYAKs-Air appinventor % ant -diagnostics
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Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.15 compiled on August 25 2024
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Is this gij/gcj? no
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USER_HOME/.ant/lib jar listing
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user.home: /Users/nayakdivyanshu
No such directory.
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Tasks availability
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sshsession : Missing dependency com.jcraft.jsch.Logger
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image : Missing dependency javax.media.jai.PlanarImage
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xz : Missing dependency org.tukaani.xz.FilterOptions
sshexec : Missing dependency com.jcraft.jsch.Logger
ftp : Missing dependency org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient
A task being missing/unavailable should only matter if you are trying to use it
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org.apache.env.Which diagnostics
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Not available.
Download it at https://xml.apache.org/commons/
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nayakdivyanshu@NAYAKs-Air appinventor %
Is your Desktop synced via iCloud? If so, it might be the case that the jar files haven't been downloaded from the cloud. You may want to move your App Inventor clone to a directory guaranteed to be local to your machine.
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yes this can be the issue.i will move App Inventor clone to a directory guaranteed to be local to my machine.
system
February 12, 2025, 10:16pm
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