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Compilation: "Error: Could not find or load main class format" when "as3mxml.asconfigc.jvmargs" is not specified

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Hi Josh,

I recently noticed that several of my small projects weren’t compiling anymore with the following error: Error: Could not find or load main class format

After few investigations I noticed that this is occurring only when the property "as3mxml.asconfigc.jvmargs" is missing in the settings.json. I’m using it that way in larger projects: "as3mxml.asconfigc.jvmargs": "-Xms512M -Xmx1G"

The verbose mode doesn’t tell me more in the console. I’m using ActionScript & MXML v1.13.0 and as I remember this wasn’t the case few weeks ago.

Best, Aurélien

Used java version:

java version "1.8.0_333"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_333-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.333-b02, mixed mode)

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Adoliocommented, Jul 20, 2022

Oh Josh, you’re right! I’m so sorry for the time you spent on this 😲

I honestly don’t know how I ended up with this weird user config…

Thanks a lot & sorry again!

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joshtynjalacommented, Jul 20, 2022

Your Starling-Template project compiles for me without error. I do not see --jvmargs="format" in my output.

This suggests to me that you may have accidentally set as3mxml.asconfigc.jvmargs in your global VSCode settings. Alternatively, if this project is part of a workspace, as3mxml.asconfigc.jvmargs could be set in the .code-workspace file.