Build from source error: Cannot access 'serviceOf': it is internal in 'org.gradle.configurationcache.extensions'

Description

I’ve been following the Building from source guide and I can’t get packages/react-native-gradle-plugin’s build to work

The only errors I have when building through Android Studio are:

e: /Users/avishay/project/node_modules/react-native/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts:9:49: Cannot access 'serviceOf': it is internal in 'org.gradle.configurationcache.extensions'
e: /Users/avishay/project/node_modules/react-native/packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts:41:7: Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch: 
internal inline fun <reified T : Any> TaskInternal.serviceOf(): TypeVariable(T) defined in org.gradle.configurationcache.extensions

I couldn’t find any documentation on the configurationcache plugin and I’m pretty inept with Gradle in general.

Version

0.66.4

Output of npx react-native info

info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
    OS: macOS 11.6
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1068NG7 CPU @ 2.30GHz
    Memory: 199.65 MB / 32.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 17.0.1 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.1 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.3.0 - ~/Projects/knox/knock/node_modules/.bin/npm
    Watchman: 2021.11.01.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.10.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 21.0.1, iOS 15.0, macOS 12.0, tvOS 15.0, watchOS 8.0
    Android SDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 2020.3 AI-203.7717.56.2031.7583922
    Xcode: 13.1/13A1030d - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 11.0.10 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2
    react-native: 0.66.4 => 1000.0.0
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

1. Follow instructions from this guide https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Building-from-source
2. Build the project

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

No response

[pjc0247]

I was able to solve this by modifying android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.3.3-all.zip

[Avishayy]

Thanks for giving it a try @Avishayy

The only errors I have when building through Android Studio are:

Can you share your project? If not, can you share what’s the content of your android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file? It might be that you’re on an older version of Gradle and you can’t build from source as the version from source is newer. I can’t, sorry. My version is 6.1.1 but Android Studio prompted me to update to update to 6.7.1 to make it work

I tried adding kotlin-gradle-plugin, kotlin-android-extensions and kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 dependencies to my project but to no avail.

Ideally you should not have to deal with this at all.

Actually, I don’t want to proceed with this issue anymore as my goal was to get debugging to work. After failing to get building to work, I tried to make a minimal reproducer with rn-tester, which failed too.

Eventually, I found out I can just remove the class I want to debug from the .aar and the java implementation to my project with the same package name, which did work. (BTW, I’m really deep in the debugging hell, I understand the symptoms of my original issue and not why it differs from the previous version, I’ll update soon)