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IntelliJ IDEA plug-in for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
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I cannot contribute due to Java-Gradle incompatibility with Rider For Unreal Engine IDE #464

Closed Karlovsky120 closed 2 years ago

Karlovsky120 commented 2 years ago

I forked this repository and tried building it.

I'm trying to fix a few bugs I've encountered while using it with JetBrains Rider For Unreal Engine 2021.2.1, however I cannot get the plugin to build. I've followed your instructions in the readme but Java and Gradle versions are incompatible.

When I select Rider as IntelliJ SDK source (I'm assuming I have to select that if I want the plugin to be started with the Rider instance so I can test it there) I can only choose between corretto-11 and corretto-16 as Internal Java Platform. However, this project uses Gradle version 4.7 which is incompatible with both (the fact that version 4.8 is compatible with Java 11 (corretto-11) is really infuriating :D).

Have you thought about updating the project to a newer gradle version, at least version 4.8? The current gradle version is 7.3.1 Is there any other way I can make this work? I'm really trying to help here.

ForNeVeR commented 2 years ago

Hello.

Currently, the project is targeting Java 8 and Gradle 4.7, and there's a hard reason for that: since we support only certain IDEA versions (2019.3 or something right now, I believe), we cannot use newer versions of gradle-intellij-plugin. Which means we cannot use newer versions of Gradle, too. All the stuff is supposed to be moved forward together, and we are really trying to keep it up-to-date when possible.

For now, I recommend using the embedded configuration and external JDK 8 (AdoptOpenJDK should work well), building the plugin locally, and then installing it into your version of Rider from the file you built.

When debugging the plugin, I usually don't do it in Rider, since it has no Rider integration, and all of the plugin features are fully testable in IDEA.

Karlovsky120 commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the explanation, I'll try to test it in IDEA then if it's all the same. I used the plugin with Rider 2021.2.1 and it has certain problems, I'll try to fix those without breaking anything.

For anyone stumbling into a similar problem, I've managed to sidestep it by setting Gradle JVM to a compatible version (version 1.8 in this particular case) in Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Gradle under azure-devops-intellij gradle project.