ERROR:AAPT: unknown option '--source-path'

[arcans]

I am using Gradle 7.2, Android Gradle Plugin 7.0.1, and JDK17 in Termux Android

In your repo, I downloaded appt2 Android 11(for arch) as replacement in my existing aapt2.

Upon building using "gradle build", it was successful.
But after adding any androidx dependency, it failed with the error below:

`AAPT2 aapt2-7.0.1-7396180-linux Daemon #0: shutdown
AAPT2 aapt2-7.0.1-7396180-linux Daemon #1: shutdown
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'.

Multiple task action failures occurred:
A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.res.Aapt2CompileRunnable
Android resource compilation failed ERROR:AAPT: unknown option '--source-path'.`

Seems like aapt2 does not support --source-path option
Can you please add new option?

[JonForShort]

Hi @arcans , would you mind pasting the entire command that gradle is executing? Thanks!

[arcans]

gradle assembleDebug

[iyxan23]

It's because the aapt2 binary is outdated with the AGP version you're using.

[freindlytech]

Me also getting this error

[victorwads]

I'm also getting this error on Newer projects. Using old Projects with old gradlew versions work in some projects.

I really have no idea of how to build a new version of aapt2 like for andrid 12/13.

@JonForShort Can u Save us building a new version?

[JonForShort]

Hi @victorwads , I am sorry but I haven't had much time to dedicate to this project.

If you'd like to try building the binaries yourself, please take a look at the modifications I have made to the AOSP build scripts (https://github.com/JonForShort/android-tools/tree/master/patch). For Android 12 and 13, you will most likely need to make similar changes.

If you haven't ever built the AOSP project, you should get familiar with this process first (https://source.android.com/setup/build).

[antogno]

I had the exact same problem.

I tried building AAPT2 for ARM on both an x86 and an ARM machine but it didn't help.

That said, when I tried using AAPT2 downloaded from sdkmanager...:

$ sdkmanager --install "build-tools;33.0.2"

...on a Debian container on ARM I noticed that it simply gave me this error:

rosetta error: failed to open elf at /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
 [1]    1546 trace trap  aapt2

I solved this by simply installing these packages:

$ sudo apt install -y libc6:amd64 libstdc++6:amd64 zlib1g:amd64

And now AAPT2 works and it comes with the --source-path option.

In case it might help, here are the commands I used to build AAPT2.

Warning

To avoid problems and wasted time, do not run the build on a disk other than the one where the operating system is installed and make sure it is formatted with the ext4 file system.

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install -y git-core gnupg flex bison build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z1-dev ccache libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip openjdk-11-jdk-headless python3

$ sudo curl -fsSL https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo -o /bin/repo

$ sudo chmod a+x /bin/repo

Create a folder, go inside it and then:

$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-12.0.0_r34 --depth=1

Caution

The following command may require up to 100 GB.

$ repo sync -c -j$(nproc)

$ source build/envsetup.sh

$ lunch aosp_arm64-eng

$ make -j$(nproc) aapt2

Lastly, below are the system information of my x86 machine, my ARM machine and its container obtained via neofetch:

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