I am trying to run a particular Android project in Eclipse 4.2.1(Juno). And it is giving following error when I try to compile it.
Failed to run com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.AidlProcessor. Check workspace log for detail.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.AidlProcessor.doCompileFiles(AidlProcessor.java:116)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.SourceProcessor.compileFiles(SourceProcessor.java:245)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.builders.PreCompilerBuilder.build(PreCompilerBuilder.java:679)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:728)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:199)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:239)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:292)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:295)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:351)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:374)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:143)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:241)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)
I haven't used any aidl file in my project.
I have installed latest SDK and latest ADT.
NOTE: I am able to run other projects perfectly fine in this Eclipse, except this one. I have also checked following links without any success:
Failed to run com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.AidlProcessor
AIDL files not building in Eclipse in random projects?
Can you please let us know what could be wrong?
Finally solved this by creating a new project and copied all files in it. Then it worked fine.