I develop on a Windows machine, and I recently tried to update Antlr4BuildTasks in my project to version 12.14. Following the upgrade, attempting to build my project produced the following error:
The "NodeDownloadDirectory" parameter is not supported by the "RunAntlrTool" task loaded from assembly: Antlr4BuildTasks, Version=12.8.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from the path: C:\Users\MJURKOIC\.nuget\packages\antlr4buildtasks\12.8.0\lib\netstandard2.0\Antlr4BuildTasks.dll. Verify that the parameter exists on the task, the <UsingTask> points to the correct assembly, and it is a settable public instance property.
The cause of the error seems clear enough to me: the default value for NodeDownloadDirectory is USERPROFILE/.node/. NVM for Windows, for its part, puts the .node directory at a unique path per installed Node version.
I've tested with different versions of Antlr4BuildTasks, and the issue appears for me starting with version 12.13. I am using the Java version of ANTLR4, not the Node.js version.
This issue means Antlr4BuildTasks fails to work out of the box on many systems. Furthermore, there is no documentation for proper setup of the Node install directory. The NodeDownloadDirectory parameter is not detailed in the README or any other documentation in the repo.
At minimum, I would wish for documentation explaining how to properly setup this parameter if Node.js is installed in a non-default location. Ideally, the library should be configured so as to not require the NodeDownloadDirectory parameter if antlr-ng is not in use.
I develop on a Windows machine, and I recently tried to update Antlr4BuildTasks in my project to version 12.14. Following the upgrade, attempting to build my project produced the following error:
The cause of the error seems clear enough to me: the default value for
NodeDownloadDirectoryisUSERPROFILE/.node/. NVM for Windows, for its part, puts the.nodedirectory at a unique path per installed Node version.I've tested with different versions of Antlr4BuildTasks, and the issue appears for me starting with version 12.13. I am using the Java version of ANTLR4, not the Node.js version.
This issue means Antlr4BuildTasks fails to work out of the box on many systems. Furthermore, there is no documentation for proper setup of the Node install directory. The
NodeDownloadDirectoryparameter is not detailed in the README or any other documentation in the repo.At minimum, I would wish for documentation explaining how to properly setup this parameter if Node.js is installed in a non-default location. Ideally, the library should be configured so as to not require the
NodeDownloadDirectoryparameter ifantlr-ngis not in use.