Android Question 'illegal characters in path' error when using 'RuntimePermissions' or 'Printing' libraries

[matt humphreys]

I have installed B4A on a Windows 10pro 64bit machine along with latest resources and JDK14.
My project uses a bunch of libraries but I am getting the 'illegal characters in path' error.
Creating a new 'default' blank project and compiling I get no errors so I assume issue is not related to the 'Configure Paths' issue.
In any case I installed B4A to C:\B4A rather than ..Program Files\Anywhere Software\... as a precaution.
The default libraries for a blank project are:
Core
XUI
...adding:
DateUitils
Excel
JavaObject
JSTouchImageView
OKHttpUtils2
Phone
RandomAccessFile
Reflection
StringUtils
ViewsEx
xCustomListView
and the blank project still compiles just fine.

If I add either the 'RuntimePermissions' v1.12 or 'Printing' v1.11 libraries the error appears as below:

"B4A Version: 12.20
Parsing code. (0.01s)
Java Version: 11
Building folders structure. (0.01s)
Compiling code. (0.02s)
Compiling layouts code. (0.00s)
Organizing libraries. (0.03s)
(AndroidX SDK)
Compiling resources Error
Illegal characters in path."

(it is the same when I use JDK14)

Any idea what issue that may point to?

 

[MarcoRome]

The same problem about a year ago:

Illegal characters in path - fails on 'Compiling resources'

I'm a bit stumped... B4A Version: 11.80 Parsing code. (0.09s) Java Version: 11 Building folders structure. (0.02s) Compiling code. (0.14s) Compiling layouts code. (0.01s) Organizing libraries. (0.02s) (AndroidX SDK) Compiling resources Error Illegal characters in path...

www.b4x.com

Can you attach an example with the error ?

 

[matt humphreys]

try attached. just a blank project with libraries.

 

[MarcoRome]

work without problem

 

[matt humphreys]

May I ask what platform you're running?

 

[MarcoRome]

May I ask what platform you're running?

Windows 10

 

[agraham]

What is the path to your Android SDK?

 

[matt humphreys]

C:\Java\jdk-14.0.1\bin\javac.exe
C:\Android\platforms\android-33\android.jar

 

[agraham]

Those look OK with no spaces. Puzzling! Have you got Java 8 to try?

 

[matt humphreys]

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-1.8\bin\javac.exe
same issue but worth a try.
I can't see it being a java path given it does compile...but not with either of those two particular libraries included.
hang sec i'll get rid of the program files path and try again...

 

[agraham]

I thought it might be that the SDK path points to some resource in the SDK whose path is only invoked when using those libraries - apparently not.

 

[matt humphreys]

I thought it might be that the SDK path points to some resource in the SDK whose path is only invoked when using those libraries - apparently not.

Good thought tho.
C:\Java\jdk-1.8\bin\javac.exe
I despairingly confirm same issue with spaceless path to jdk8u371.