{"id":2642,"date":"2015-09-18T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2015-09-18T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:00:22","slug":"fixing-scala-type-errors-in-gradle-incompatible-types-inference-variable-e-has-incompatible-bounds-cannot-infer-type-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/fixing-scala-type-errors-in-gradle-incompatible-types-inference-variable-e-has-incompatible-bounds-cannot-infer-type-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing scala type errors in gradle (“incompatible types: inference variable E has incompatible bounds” + “cannot infer type-variable”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I experienced an error, where gradle failed to build some Scala code using the ZincCompiler, with a Java 8 JDK:<\/p>\n

\nFAILURE: Build failed with an exception.\n  (cannot infer type-variable(s) K#1,V#1\n  (actual and formal argument lists differ in length))\n\nerror: incompatible types: inference variable E has incompatible bounds\n<\/pre>\n
This error can be caused by having an older java in the JAVA_HOME, e.g.:<\/p>\n
\nC:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_25\n<\/pre>\n
The fix for me was to update to:<\/p>\n
\nC:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_60\n<\/pre>\n
If you run “java -version” and “javac -version” and they don’t match, you may have multiple paths to java in $PATH. <\/p>\n
The best thing is to have this at the front:<\/p>\n
\n%JAVA_HOME%\/bin\n<\/pre>\n
Note that you may additionally have symlinks to java in one or both of these locations, in addition to things you’ve added:<\/p>\n
\nc:\\windows\nc:\\ProgramData\\Oracle\\Java\\\n<\/pre>\n
For more information, this appears to match this issue with the ZincCompiler:
\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/typesafehub\/zinc\/issues\/82<\/a><\/p>\n
If this doesn’t resolve the issue, and you know that your build works on some other machine, you can run “gradlew -d [task]” to get verbose output, and compare them.<\/p>\n
You’ll see a section like this, which shows the classpath, all the paths on your machine, etc, which should help figure out what the difference is:<\/p>\n
\n Compiling with Zinc Scala compiler.\n\n Setup = {\n    scala compiler = ...\n    scala library = ...\n    scala extra = {\n       ...\n    }\n\n    sbt interface = ...\n    compiler interface sources = ...\n    java home = C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_25\n    fork java = true\n    cache directory = C:\\Users\\gsieling\\.zinc\\0.3.7\n }\n Inputs = {\n    classpath = {\n       ...\n    }\n    sources = {\n       ...\n    }\n  }\n    output directory = ...\n    scalac options = {\n       -deprecation\n       -unchecked\n       -feature\n    }\n    javac options = {\n       -d\n         ...\n       -g\n       -encoding\n       UTF-8\n       -XDuseUnsharedTable=true\n    }\n    cache file = ...\n    analysis map = {\n       ...\n    }\n    force clean = false\n    java only = false\n    compile order = Mixed\n    incremental compiler options = {\n       transitive step = 3\n       recompile all fraction = 0.5\n       debug relations = false\n       debug api = false\n       api dump = \n       api diff context size = 5\n       transactional = false\n       backup directory = \n       recompile on macro def = true\n       name hashing = true\n    }\n    output relations = \n    output products = \n }\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I experienced an error, where gradle failed to build some Scala code using the ZincCompiler, with a Java 8 JDK: FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. (cannot infer type-variable(s) K#1,V#1 (actual and formal argument lists differ in length)) error: incompatible types: inference variable E has incompatible bounds This error can be caused by having an … <\/p>\n
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