Error during local testing `could not find or load main class`

[Dogacel]

I was following the readme and did

> ./gradlew :protoc-gen-pbandk:protoc-gen-pbandk-jvm:assembleDist
> ./gradlew :protoc-gen-pbandk:protoc-gen-pbandk-jvm:installDist

and when I tried to run protoc it gave me the could not find or load main class pbandk.gen.MainKt error. The solution was:

• ./gradlew :protoc-gen-pbandk:protoc-gen-pbandk-lib:build
• Use java-8 rather than java-11

I am not sure which lead to the solution just opening the issue to guide others.

[garyp]

Hmm. We use Java 11 in the CI jobs, so it should definitely work fine with Java 11. How did you run protoc after the installDist step?

[Dogacel]

protoc --plugin=protoc-gen-pbandk=/Users/dogac/workdir/pbandk/protoc-gen-pbandk/jvm/build/install/protoc-gen-pbandk/bin/protoc-gen-pbandk \
--pbandk_out=kotlin_package_mapping="pbandk.*->com.*;testpb->testpb2":src \
*.proto

I was experimenting with the new package mapping option. If Java-11 is already in the CI jobs, probably the first command did the thing. But still, I was having compilation issues when running build with java-11. I was seeing issues with File. When I have some spare time, I will replicate and post the error codes during compilation with java-11.