BuildNativeImage fails on /usr/bin/cc, error=17, File exists

[artemptushkin]

I'd like to request help with analysis. It might be the reason in my setup or on Graalvm but I can't investigate by my one.
I'd appreciate any clues.

• MacOS Cataline v. 10.15.6 (19G2021)
• graalvm 20.3.0
• com.github.ayltai.spring-graalvm-native-plugin:1.4.0
• org.springframework.experimental:spring-graalvm-native:0.8.2

plugin setup:

nativeImage {
	mainClassName = 'io.github.artemptushkin.spintbootnative.SpintBootNativeHello'

	reportExceptionStackTraces = true
	removeUnusedAutoConfig     = true
	removeYamlSupport          = true
	maxHeapSize                = '4G'
	javaVersion 		    = '8'
	disableToolchainChecking   = true
}

Steps:

./gradlew buildNativeImage

Result:

Error: Unable to compile C-ABI query code /var/folders/_s/7c1s7rts7xsbv1_r8pcdd6wm0000gn/T/SVM-8178873000820406083/LibFFIHeaderDirectives.c. Make sure native software development toolchain is installed on your system.
com.oracle.svm.core.util.UserError$UserException: Unable to compile C-ABI query code /var/folders/_s/7c1s7rts7xsbv1_r8pcdd6wm0000gn/T/SVM-8178873000820406083/LibFFIHeaderDirectives.c. Make sure native software development toolchain is installed on your system.
	at com.oracle.svm.core.util.UserError.abort(UserError.java:82)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.c.codegen.CCompilerInvoker.compileAndParseError(CCompilerInvoker.java:452)
Error: Unable to compile C-ABI query code /var/folders/_s/7c1s7rts7xsbv1_r8pcdd6wm0000gn/T/SVM-8178873000820406083/LibFFIHeaderDirectives.c. Make sure native software development toolchain is installed on your system.

	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.c.CAnnotationProcessor.compileQueryCode(CAnnotationProcessor.java:164)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.c.CAnnotationProcessor.process(CAnnotationProcessor.java:112)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.c.NativeLibraries.finish(NativeLibraries.java:540)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.NativeImageGenerator.processNativeLibraryImports(NativeImageGenerator.java:1574)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.NativeImageGenerator.setupNativeLibraries(NativeImageGenerator.java:1056)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.NativeImageGenerator.setupNativeImage(NativeImageGenerator.java:874)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.NativeImageGenerator.doRun(NativeImageGenerator.java:556)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.NativeImageGenerator.lambda$run$0(NativeImageGenerator.java:471)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask$AdaptedRunnableAction.exec(ForkJoinTask.java:1386)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:289)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1056)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1692)
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:175)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/usr/bin/cc" (in directory "/var/folders/_s/7c1s7rts7xsbv1_r8pcdd6wm0000gn/T/SVM-8178873000820406083"): error=17, File exists
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048)
	at com.oracle.svm.hosted.c.codegen.CCompilerInvoker.compileAndParseError(CCompilerInvoker.java:426)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/usr/bin/cc" (in directory "/var/folders/_s/7c1s7rts7xsbv1_r8pcdd6wm0000gn/T/SVM-8178873000820406083"): error=17, File exists

	... 13 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=17, File exists
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=17, File exists

[ayltai]

I'm not sure what caused this error, but it says "Make sure native software development toolchain is installed on your system". So are you sure you have the native toolchain installed?
Reference: https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/native-image/
xcode-select --install

[artemptushkin]

Yes, this is installed
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

[ayltai]

There are a few similar issues reported:
https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+Unable+to+compile+C-ABI+query+code

The causes seem to be related to the OS setup or Java version. To troubleshoot, I would suggest either:

1. Create a GitHub Action and build your project on a macOS image to isolate OS setup issue; or
2. Share a minimal project that reproduces this error and I can run it on my mac. If there is no error, I can share information like my Java version that compiles successfully.

[ayltai]

Did you make any progress?

[artemptushkin]

Not really, I pretty sure that it is something wrong with my station...
Could you please try ./gradlew buildNativeImage from https://github.com/artemptushkin/spring-boot-native-scale-zero ?

[artemptushkin]

I tried to wipe some legacy Java version, check all the dependent libraries, and soft on my station - no result. I started debugging this, but same - can't see the file that exists

[ayltai]

I got the same error executing your project with ./gradlew buildNativeImage, so I think it is not related to the system configurations. I'll take a deeper look.

[ayltai]

Found this: oracle/graal#2845
Could be a bug in JDK that is fixed in JDK 14/15 but not 11.

[artemptushkin]

I've been trying with 8.

I think I skipped that ticket as there a different error...
Thanks - waiting for the bug fix I think.

[codexetreme]

I've been having the exact same error, although, my investigations I think are a bit different,

I have the tool chain installed, cause when I do

gcc --version
I get,

Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple clang version 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin20.1.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

so as you see the installed dir is /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

however as @artemptushkin's log shows (which exactly similar to mine, except we are trying to compile an internal source), it is looking for the files in /usr/bin/cc,

is this path mismatch a possible solution? I am not 100% convinced this is the root cause of the issue, but I felt like pointing it out :)

[artemptushkin]

@codexetreme what have you changed? mine gcc --version gives the same result, the same directory, but the error perists

[codexetreme]

I dowloaded, GraalVM from GitHub, 20.3.0, installed native-image on that , and compiled against that, it works ,

./native-image -cp picocli-4.5.2.jar --static -jar ~/mycode/build/ouptuts/cli-0.2.0-beta.0.0+20201207T212423Z.jar cli

this gets me a binary that I can run and execute

EDIT: yes, I am using this for picocli, so I am not sure if this gradle plugin correctly configured, but I highly doubt that to be the case

[ayltai]

Thanks @codexetreme for building without this plugin so it does seem this is an issue with the command options generated by this plugin.