I've been trying to use sbt for one of my projects, however I've ran into the following problem - when I try to use sbt console to get the scala's REPL, it just doesn't allow any input. Example session:
[lared#lt foo]$ sbt
[info] Set current project to foo (in build file:/tmp/foo/)
> console
[info] Updating {file:/tmp/foo/}foo...
[info] Resolving org.scala-lang#scala-reflect;2.10.3 ...
[info] Done updating.
[info] Starting scala interpreter...
[info]
Welcome to Scala version 2.10.3 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_25).
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.
scala>
I can not type anything. It doesn't seem to take much RAM/CPU time. The problem is reproducible in any directory, regardless of if it does have a proper project structure (for example the SBT Hello World tutorial) or not.
I'm using sbt 0.13.1 and the JDK/Scala versions as seen above on Fedora 21.
The problem was solved by deleting ~/.ivy2/ and (perhaps unrelated) migration to Oracle Java 1.7 SDK.
I could not find a way to get the Fedora 24 installed sbt 0.13.1 console to work either so I downloaded the latest sbt (currently 0.13.12), unzipped into /opt and add the sbt binary to my path before /usr/bin/sbt.
The earlier suggestion to delete ~/.ivy2 did not work for me.
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Instructions for the course say to use verion 0.13.x.
I installed the latest msi from the sbt site, but when I type "sbt about", I get:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\reall>sbt about
Error: Unable to access jarfile
Copying runtime jar.
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Error: Unable to access jarfile
"C:\Users\reall\.sbt\preloaded\org.scala-sbt\sbt\"1.0.2"\jars\sbt.jar"
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Ignoring option MaxPermSize; support was removed in 8.0
[info] Loading project definition from C:\Users\reall\project
[info] Set current project to reall (in build file:/C:/Users/reall/)
[info] This is sbt 1.0.2
[info] The current project is {file:/C:/Users/reall/}reall 0.1-SNAPSHOT
[info] The current project is built against Scala 2.12.3
[info] Available Plugins: sbt.plugins.IvyPlugin, sbt.plugins.JvmPlugin, sbt.plugins.CorePlugin, sbt.plugins.JUnitXmlReportPlugin, sbt.plugins.Giter8TemplatePlugin
[info] sbt, sbt plugins, and build definitions are using Scala 2.12.3
i.e., a jar file error and the sbt version 1.0.2.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong, it's just that the required version 0.13.x is not the latest anymore. So you can either follow #dmytro-mitin's answer and reinstall sbt, or you can still use the one you already have: what you installed now is the sbt launcher, it can be used to run different versions of sbt depending on a project. So it's not important which launcher version you are using (unless you're working on something very sbt-specific).
Normally, every sbt project has a project/build.properties file with the sbt version that is needed to work with it:
sbt.version=0.13.16
So you can change (or create) this file and when you run sbt in the project root folder, it will launch sbt version 0.13.16.
Another way to launch specific version of sbt is to run it with the -sbt-version option :
sbt -sbt-version 0.13.16
or using -D flag:
sbt -Dsbt.version=0.13.16
which has exactly the same effect as editing project/build.properties.
Install not the latest version. The latest one is 1.0.2.
Install 0.13.16.
You can download it here: http://www.scala-sbt.org/download.html
There are msi and zip files.
Installing sbt on Windows
So I need to download scala for one of my classes. I am using a mac pro and the command line to do so.
I downloaded sbt using homebrew which worked fine.
After these are the directions given:
Install the SBT plugin:
mkdir ~/.sbt
mkdir ~/.sbt/0.13
mkdir ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins
echo 'addSbtPlugin("edu.umass.cs" % "cmpsci220" % "3.0.0")' > ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/plugins.sbt
To verify that everything is installed, I have to type 'sbt' to start SBT. Once typed, I should see output that looks like this:
[info] Loading global plugins from /Users/arjun/.sbt/0.13/plugins
[info] Updating {file:/Users/arjun/.sbt/0.13/plugins/}global-plugins...
[info] Resolving org.fusesource.jansi#jansi;1.4 ...
[info] downloading https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/sbt-plugin-releases/edu.umass.cs/cmpsci/scala_2.10/sbt_0.13/3.0.0/jars/cmpsci.jar ...
[info] [SUCCESSFUL ] edu.cs#cmpsci;3.0.0!cmpsci.jar (1261ms)$
However, My issue is that once I type 'sbt' to verify things I get this line:
[info] Set current project to home (in build file:/Users/home/)
It asks me for a command. I have tried 'run', 'test', 'update'. They all run fine but it keeps asking me a command.
My goal is to get to the 'sbt console' so I can run scala, import packages, scripts, etc..
Any ideas on what the issue is?
You need to be in the folder of your SBT project to do sbt run.
First cd into it, then sbt run to run it (or sbt test or whatever :))
Type console at the sbt prompt.
Edit:
So actually, why do you think this is what you want? Are you trying to run scala code that you're given? Or are you trying to write scala code? If the latter, you should download intellij and the scala plugin.
Please make sure there is a scala file in the directory you run sbt.
You may also check this for others: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/Hello.html
I have (multiple times) tried to install SBT-0.13.8 from the SBT download page via the SBT-0.13.8-MSI button and I always end up getting an SBT version which shows the following output
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
[info] Loading project definition from C:\Users\Tina\Desktop\example\project\project
error: error while loading CharSequence, class file 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.
8.0_20\lib\rt.jar(java/lang/CharSequence.class)' is broken (bad constant pool tag 15 at byte 1470)
[error] Type error in expression
Project loading failed: (r)etry, (q)uit, (l)ast, or (i)gnore? i
[warn] Ignoring load failure: no project loaded.
> about
[info] This is sbt 0.12.4
[info] No project is currently loaded
[info] sbt, sbt plugins, and build definitions are using Scala 2.9.2
SBT produces an error message and (!) shows itself as version 0.12.4.!!!
I really made sure that I have no other version of SBT installed and I even made a reboot before re-installing it but nothing changed. SBT files have a creation date of March, 21, 2015. This seems to be the newest version but why does this version show up as 0.12.4 and does not work with JDK1.8?
Looks like the directory you're in is wrong, you want to launch sbt from C:\Users\Tina\Desktop\example\project not C:\Users\Tina\Desktop\example\project\project (note 1 project less).
The second problem you're having is you're trying to use sbt 0.12.4 with Java 8. sbt 0.12.4 uses (as can be seen from the output) Scala 2.9.2 which doesn't work with Java 8. I would recommend migrating to sbt 0.13.8, but if not you could always downgrade to Java 7.
Edit after comments below
The progfun Coursera course download is still configured with sbt
0.12.4 which you're having trouble building because you are using Java 8.
I had a quick go at trying to see if upgrading the project to 0.13.8 would work (FYI it involves editing project/build.properties), but then plugins need to be upgraded, then meta-build code needed to be changed because of namespace changes..
Unless you're willing to experiment more and work you're way through the various changes required to use latest sbt and latest Java (which is what I would do if this were for myself), I would recommend as an alternative to:
Downgrade to Java 7
Notify the relevant people involved in running the course that the source material should be updated as it demonstrably does not work on latest, stable Java.
If your default Java is Java 8 but you want to switch to Java 7 for this out-of-date project setup, you need to create an .sbtopts file at the root of the project containing (note: on separate lines!):
-java-home
C:\Users\Tina\PATH\TO\YOUR\JAVA\HOME
I'm new to Scala and Lift and SBT. I've cloned Ecommerce example from Lift's sample applications.
Now I want to simply run the application.
Documentation says, that container:start should start the app. But I'm getting error:
> container:start
[error] No action named 'container:start' exists.
[info] Execute 'help' for a list of commands or 'actions' for a list of available project actions and methods.
[info]
[info] Total time: 0 s, completed 25.05.2013 16:47:05
I guess that maybe it's because version difference.
[info] using LiftProject with sbt 0.7.5 and Scala 2.7.7
How can I start this application ?
And if it's caused by version difference is it possible to upgrade the application to latest sbt and scala version ?
Update
I've tried to use jetty-start and received another error:
> jetty-start
[error] No action named 'jetty-start' exists.
[info] Execute 'help' for a list of commands or 'actions' for a list of available project actions and methods.
I've also found another similar command jetty-run from sbt help. When I run it I'm getting a huge number of compilation errors. It seems like my scala 2.9.2 cannot compile the code.
This project, as far as I see, uses the old SBT version. The old way to start the web application is:
./sbt
> jetty-start
if you want to reload the app on source change, use ~ jetty-start
Note that there's a far more up to date liftweb project example here: https://github.com/lift/lift_25_sbt
probably sbt did not download the requried jar files.
run the following command
> sbt
> update
now sbt should download the requried jar files
>jetty-run
now sbt should compile and run the web-app.
Firing up the SBT console it reads :
[info] Building project AYLIEN 1.0 against Scala 2.8.1
[info] using MyProject with sbt 0.7.4 and Scala 2.7.7
How can I make it use MyProject with sbt 0.7.4 and Scala 2.8.1 ? Please pay attenetion that I'm not asking about the Scala version that is used to build my project (it is the 2.8.1 as you can see), but I rather want to make sbt use MyProject with Scala 2.8.1. Apparently sbt uses it's own scala version to work with project definition (MyProject here) which is different than one it uses to actually build the project! or perhaps I'm missing something ... ?
I can see your concern about SBT still using 2.7.7 internally, but it doesn't really matter since SBT downloads that version on its own. You do not have to install 2.7.7 or anything, just forget about it and pretend your environment is pure Scala 2.8.
The configuration file that holds the SBT version setting is: project/build.properties. The content looks like this:
project.organization=com.ab.web
project.name=cool_proj
sbt.version=0.7.4
project.version=1.0
build.scala.versions=2.8.0
project.initialize=false
When you want to move up to the next SBT version, just change 0.7.4 to that version and SBT will update itself. Eventually SBT will use some other Scala version internally, but this will not matter to the user.
SBT 0.7.* won't work with Scala 2.8.* for your project definition.
Mark Harrah is currently working on the next version of SBT which will work with 2.8.*. This means that you can't use any Scala features or functionality that was added after Scala 2.7.7 in your project definition or plugins. Your project itself is free to use 2.8.*.