Phonegap/Cordova build android node_modules/q/q.js throw e;

Question

cordova build android gives me the following err

node_modules/q/q.js:126 throw e; (*error details)

This question has been asked before, but the typical answer regarding PATH and ANDROID_HOME hasn't worked for me.

I've put this into code snippet to avoid SO submission problems

export HOME="/Users/rover"
export ANDROID_SDK="$HOME/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk"
export ANDROID_HOME="$ANDROID_SDK/tools"
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="$ANDROID_SDK/platform-tools"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS:$ANDROID_SDK/build-tools:$PATH"
export ANT_HOME="/usr/local/bin/ant"
#export PATH="$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin"

My environment variables:

$ set | grep "ANDROID\|PATH"

ANDROID_HOME=/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS=/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools ANDROID_SDK=/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk PATH=/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools:/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools:/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

$ which ant
/usr/local/bin/ant
$ ls /usr/local/bin/ant
/usr/local/bin/ant

$ cordova --version
4.0.0

$ ant -v
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4

I'm on Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) which might have a problem with Java 8. Can this be related?

$ java -version java version "1.8.0_05" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_05-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.5-b02, mixed mode)

$ ant --execdebug
exec "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java" -classpath "/usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.9.4/libexec/lib/ant-launcher.jar" -Dant.home="/usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.9.4/libexec" -Dant.library.dir="/usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.9.4/libexec/lib" org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher -cp ""

(*error details)

BUILD FAILED
/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:653: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/rover/Documents/Dev/Android/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:698: null returned: 1

Total time: 1 second

/Library/WebServer/Documents/Booster/core_ionic_git/platforms/android/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error code 1 for command: ant with args: debug,-f,/Library/WebServer/Documents/Booster/core_ionic_git/platforms/android/build.xml,-Dout.dir=ant-build,-Dgen.absolute.dir=ant-gen
Error: /Library/WebServer/Documents/Booster/core_ionic_git/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 8
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:135:23)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:756:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:823:5)

Any ideas on fixing this?

Answer 1

I banged my head against the wall for hours and hours and ultimately came up with a simple solution. I went into the project directory and issued two commands:

cordova platform remove android
cordova platform add android

Recompiled with "cordova build android" and it worked like a charm.

I think cordova wanted to possibly update some files.

===== Update for Ionic ========

In case you are using ionic framework then these are the commands for your rescue:

ionic platform remove android
ionic platform add android

I have noticed that this normally happens when you break (Ctrl-C) the compilation process.